Google Wave já morrendo na praia?

Minha opinião: o Google Wave passa por uma crise de identidade ainda. Ou, então, o conceito do Google Wave é tão avançado que ninguém conseguiu captá-lo muito bem. Outra hipótese: o sistema é conceitualmente falho, e cairá no esquecimento, sendo lembrado apenas como um exemplar overhyped.

Rodrigo Ghedin em 4 Outubro de 2009 para Meio Bit.

O Fim da Teoria e do Método Científico... E a culpa é do Google!

The scientific method is built around testable hypotheses. These models, for the most part, are systems visualized in the minds of scientists. The models are then tested, and experiments confirm or falsify theoretical models of how the world works. ... But faced with massive data, this approach to science — hypothesize, model, test — is becoming obsolete. There is now a better way. ... We can stop looking for models. We can analyze the data without hypotheses about what it might show. We can throw the numbers into the biggest computing clusters the world has ever seen and let statistical algorithms find patterns where science cannot... Today companies like Google, which have grown up in an era of massively abundant data, don't have to settle for wrong models. Indeed, they don't have to settle for models at all.

Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine, 23 de junho de 2008.

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The death of Google

Puzzled tech analysts are beginning to ask the unimaginable: is Google’s historic run finally over? The numbers don’t look promising. Google’s U.S. paid click-throughs – to be sure, its bread and butter revenue-generator – may rise by just two percent in the first quarter, according to Henry Blodget at Silicon Alley Insider, citing proprietary ComScore data. That would compare to a 25 per cent quarterly growth rate a year ago for Google, and down from a 40 per cent quarterly growth rate in the fourth quarter of 2007. From 40 per cent to 2 per cent in the span of three months? What happened?

Bernhard Warner, Times Online, 16 de abril de 2008

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