Welcome to GoogleGazer, a blog devoted to tracking the comings and goings of Google, its partners, and well-wishers, as well as its competitors and enemies.
The blogmeister, David E. Y. Sarna, is a wizened old veteran of the technology wars, who partnered with IBM and Microsoft in their heydays.
As a technology watcher who wrote one of the first programs for a personal computer back in 1969 (then called a “stand-alone programmable terminal”), David has seen how true is the French proverb, plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose (the more things change, the more they stay the same). But he has also seen truly disruptive technologies, and Google, since its founding in September 1998 has been in the vanguard of much of the interesting things that have been happening on the Internet, and has created some truly disruptive technologies, that have affect most of us on a daily basis. Did someone suggest a “hot date” to you? Before agreeing, did you “Google him” to get the skinny on what he’s been up to? This is but one trivial example of the profound affect Google is having on all of us, and this makes Google gazing as popular a sport today as Microsoft watching once was.
Like all of us, David carries around his biases and prejudices, but he owns no stock in either Google or any other company that will be mentioned here, unless such ownership is prominently disclosed, something that’s not likely to happen in the foreseeable future. This allows him the say that he is independent and truly “objective.”
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