Has Google gone too far?

This week in the Wired Magazine I read about the too quick expansion of Google. As we all know Google in the past 5 years has become a very successful company. Google is no longer a search engine company because it has branched out into many other sectors of the computer and communications technology market such as telephones, internet provider and computer operating software. Google will soon be releasing a software based product for the PC. This is to compete with their biggest rivals , Microsoft and Apple.

The new Google software is different because it just uses the internet and could replace Word, Powerpoint, Excel, or even iTunes in the long term. Sounds weird right? It is very bizarre but Google being Google have been so innovative that they have made a PowerPoint and Word Station called Google Docs, all which runs off the internet. Handy for the on-the-go type of person !

However a big problem with the Google server is that it crashes too often, an example of this was the crash in 2009 of Gmail (also know as Google Mail). The Google Mail server crashed and even though nothing was lost, it caused problems for people that had important emails or files. Imagine a whole computer losing its files, its annoying and it shouldn’t happen, and you cannot back up your files because its all on the internet.

I think that Google are expanding way too fast. They are taking too many risks. They should take their time with their software development and try to make it non crashable Faster search engines, better phones, safer Gmail servers or even a more Windows esque Google Docs would be a better investment for Google. The rapid growth of the Google is good but in this case I think Google could make a stupid investment and lose millions of dollars.