When you want to say that a company is a leader in a field or has the best products, you say it's the Google of that field. If you search for "* is the Google of *", you'll find a lot of services and companies compared to Google.
* Krugle is the Google of programming code
* Baidu is the Google of China
* YouTube is the Google of Video
* Michael Arrington is the Google of Web 2.0 (?!)
* Gamespot is the Google of Videogames
* Nero is the Google of burning software
* Winamp is the Google of MP3 players
* Technorati is the Google of blog searching
* Flickr is the Google of photo sharing
* Bloglines is the Google of RSS readers
* Amazon is the Google of online book retailers
* ImageShack is the Google of free image hosting
* TailRank is the Google of memetrackers
* Skype is already the Google of VoIP
* Pandora is the Google of music
* Honda is the Google of automakers
* imdb is the Google of movies
* MySpace is the Google of social networks
* iTunes is the Google of the podcasting world
* Lonely Planet is the Google of guidebooks
{ Idea from a post written by Chris DiBona. }
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I think thats a bit of a stretch, I certainly wouldn't say that.
ReplyDeleteMySpace is -not- the Google of social networks.
ReplyDeletegoogle reader > bloglines
ReplyDeleteHey guys, try this one:
ReplyDelete* is the Yahoo of * here
This has too many results than * is the Google of *
You're not the first to play this game :)
ReplyDeletehttp://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/11930
the funny thing is that flickr should be the "Yahoo!? of photo sharing" :p
ReplyDeleteit's like saying that "microsoft is the Apple of the pc's" hahahahhaa
nice post
Fun with analogies...
ReplyDeleteWeb 2.0: X is the Google of Y
Web 1.0: X is the AOL of Y
Ergo, Google is the AOL of Web 2.0.
Will Google and all the Google wannabes follow the same track as AOL?
Disucss.
Google is the SGI of the 90's
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