Google is in the media spotlight again, but this time the coverage is not positive: A glitch in its personalized home page has caused a lot of users to lose their customized settings. Users are fuming because most of them spent significant amount of time to refine their pages (story here).
Following my previous post on Google and MS, this incident shows a centralized model that Google currently employs is having some challenges. My personal opinion is this will be probably one of the last few straws before Google finally dips its feet into the water of distributed computing.
What does this imply? I foresee Google will start to venture into downloadable applications so that users can use Google's applications (search, document + spreadsheet, etc.) and store the files offline. This is getting closer and closer to compete with MS head-on. I am very interested to see how this goes.
We will see. :)
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