Google’s official birthday is on Sep 7th of every year. Even last year it was on the same date. Donno why they have this birthday logo on their homepage today. It’s probably on 28th Sep, 1998 that they opened their first office at Menlo Park, California. With the buzz happening everyday around Google, one would assume Googleplex must be the most happening place for geeks. I may not agree with that. With all the buzz that’s happening, these guys continue to strive hard to innovate ways that could tackle the ever-expanding web. And that’s why we have apps springing-up from Google, every friday, like a Jaishankar movie.

A friend had a good question, “These dudes are creating word-class applications and giving it away for free. How the heck will a business model that supports such give-away decisions be firm ?”. We know that the main source of revenue for Google is through Ads other than other smaller sources of income like the corporate licensing of search engine etc. With $3.7 billion at their pockets this year, I am sure a considerable amount of money would eb spent on market research to study the market conditions. And these guys aren’t oblivious to the fact that there are numerous dudes who have lost sleep because of them and they are over-working to throw Google away. Even if what I said could be wrong, these guys may be set to break the rule, that they create world-class apps, give it for free and still prosper in business.

Just today, I read Marissa Mayer’s profile at Business Week. Marrisa Mayer is a product manager at Google and is said to be the brain behind the new innovations at Google. And more than her profile, the column, though not-so-well-written, talks about how fresh ideas are inspired and nutured till the end at Google. Here’s how Google innovates.

Sergey and Larry didn’t know HTML[Via] when they started Google. I am not joking. It’s only because of that Google doesn’t have a cluttered interface. Ignorance is bliss. As you notice the Google page today, the no of indexed pages count is dropped and it looks more cleaner than every before.

With the recent rumor about Google providing free wi-fi across US of A, as Buzz Machine calls it the Googlopoly may be named as United States of Google.

Anyway, if you are tad against what I have to say on Google here, do login to GMAIL and see what a killer app it is. Despite the fact that EMAIL had existed every since Sabeer Bhatia chose to call it Hotmail. And thats just one reason why we should agree Google can see beyond the horizon of internet.