Matt Cutts, a Google employee, pointed out a site that has a list of things they would like to see from Google. The list has 16 items on it and many of them are respectable requests. Here are a few that I agree with the most:
- Give us a better mashup - We want a genuinely easy to use Google Mashup! We want a Google home page where we can drag and drop RSS feeds, our Google mail box, weather forecasts, notebooks, our online image account, and any kind of widget we can think of.
- Buy a good bookmarking service - The Google Bookmarks service doesn’t really work, does it?
- Give us real numbers - We would really like to know how many sites are linking to us, but your link command is totally unreliable. We know, because Yahoo! sometimes reports 1000 times more links than you do, and we doubt that’s due to a larger database.
- Spend millions on click fraud research - Please do not let click fraud undermine your ability to deliver a good search engine.
- Give us a well functioning Gdrive - We are very grateful for your generous Gmail accounts, which are well suited to storage hungry power users like ourselves.
There are 11 more items in their list so you should definitely go and check them out. One thing that I would love to see the most is something that all of us really want: integrated services. We want Google to bring all of their services together in a fashion that makes them easier to use. If they really want to blow the competition out of the water they should make some sort of offline Google application that connects you with all of their services. That way you could manage and read your Gmail, Calendar, Notebook, News, and more whether you are connected to the Internet or not.
Obviously the GDrive is something else that I would truly love to see which could also be thrown into the “universal” Google application that I talked about above. Out of curiosity what would everyone else like to see Google do next…and then I’ll take your recommendations and make a poll this weekend.
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Give us 5 gigs per user: use that space for pics, videos, data, and emails.
The Google “drive” allows easy upload. In Docs, you can edit documents you’ve uploaded. In Page Creator you can publish any content you’ve uploaded. In Mail you can send attachments straight from Drive. Every file can be set up to be shared with friends, tagged, and set to public, private, or restricted (requiring a password to download).
If they do that, the mighty internet hammer would swing in their direction.
Since the Internet has revolutionized the speed and ability to communicate, I’d like to see Google put some more effort into GoogleTalk.
I don’t mean adding Solitaire, or Games, or access to your iTunes. All that stuff can be done separately.
I’d like to see built-in video calls, conference calls, landline calls, and the ability to IM multiple people at the same time.
Anything to enhance and push the ability to communicate even further would be tops on my list.
I would like links from one service to the next one. For example, in Gmail there are links to Calendar and other services but not from my personalized home page. And when I a perform a search there isn’t a link back to my home page. There should be an easy navigation system from one service to the next. A few well placed hyperlinks isn’t too much too ask for is it?
I don’t see whats wrong with the current bookmarking feature. I love the integration with the tool bar and the fact that both ie and ff have the click feature on the star that allows you to easily tag and de-tag bookmarks.
In Google Reader, I want a nice little search box next to the Feed Settings dropdown that will let me search either just that feed, just that folder, or all my feeds.
I’m kinda shocked that they don’t have a video feature in Google Talk yet but with the purchase of YouTube they should surely get it implemented. After all they now own the king of all video services…so it shouldn’t be a problem.
I’m very perplexed as to why they haven’t made that links bar available on every page AND make it customizable. Heck, why not even integrate it will your Google Bookmarks somehow.
There is no doubt that Google Reader lacks a powerful search engine…which is pretty ironic.
Gdrive tops my list hands down. I’ve been looking for a (free
) online backup solution for a while now. AOL’s service seems amazing in theory but is a horror story in reality. I’ve tried tons of utilities listed in a Techcrunch article and was disappointed with most. The only one that seems worthwhile is DriveHQ who have fantastic desktop clients (one a file manager, another a backup utility that lets you perform automatic realtime backups). The downside: A 1GB cap for the free version and a nag box that pops up just once when you run it.
How about looking at the online backup scene sometime Ryan?
What else do I want from Google… hmmm lesse… I don’t want to over-reach so I won’t mention ‘world peace’ - how about plain ol’ free high speed worldwide Internet acess?