Google - What is the limit for this giant?

Release of Chrome is almost inconsequential in its own right. It has to be viewed within a broader perspective of what Google is doing. Not what it says it is doing, but what actually is happening.

The browser technology in Chrome is important. The Google guys started from scratch, and appear to have done most of the right things, many of them severely overdue, to let people use complex web applications at high speed and without regular crashes and system instability. Neither Google nor Microsoft will make any more or less money as a direct result of Chrome. One  commercial angle is...

*YouTube's bandwith is costing google $1 million dollars per day *No estimates have Google taking in nearly that much in revenue *Larger banners ads are appearing, but more ingenious forms of advertising coming. *Google is even partnering with companies that have copyrighted material on the site. They're doing revenue shares with YouTube (if you can't beat 'em...)

While Google claims ignorance on monopoly-building, and has made its code open-source as proof, the reality is that the entity that controls the pace of innovation in fact has the monopoly. Why do I believe this? 1. Information products are naturally monopolistic. People and businesses don't want multiple operating systems; they only want one that works. Information systems are not islands unto themselves;...

In the short term the news of more competitors that threaten the empire of Microsoft is good, you'll be in that long-term growth that Google is not dangerous. Is that really the future, we can not have a monopoly on the Internet around the world? Here in Brazil, Google is a fever, everyone respected and speaks very well of all products launched to date, because most of them are free.