Peep through the gates of the Internet Cemetery, and you can see the gravediggers are never idle. Day after day, hour after hour, the dead domains come in, ready to be interred with all the other websites which withered from a lack of interest, ran out of money, were overtaken by a rival with snazzier technology, or just lost their cool.
| Netscape’s heading there, and so, too, is Friends Reunited. And, if last week’s runes are read correctly, the day may not be far off when Second Life, Facebook and Twitter end up there too. Read more at www.independent.co.uk |
The death of Google is right here in the combination of Open Intelligence and Amplify.
simon eaton April 5, 2009 7:08 pm
Let’s hope so. Google’s limitations seem more apparent in the context of Web 2. It’s a good search engine, but now compromised by commercial interests IMO - after all it’s not an Open company! - but it can’t provide what collaborative intelligence can.