Google - Plan 9 (Part -1)

Among the zillion ardent followers of Google (can it be possible, there have been only a total of 26 billion humans who have walked the earth from the time when apes realised that sharp stones are weapons to the day when we have weapons which can bring the civilization back to using sharp stones??); I humbly take the privilege to keep introducing my pack of friends to the Google Wonderland. The amazing (or rather ironic) part, though, is using Google Search itself to find more about Google.

What is Google? Tough to describe. Even tougher to predict. A Search Engine is now having command over blogging, photo publishing, desktop search, e-mail; just to name a few. And Google Labs (labs.google.com) , pegged by Google itself as "technology playground", never fails to suprise one by hosting some really cool, user-friendly and amazingly powerful tools. The key word here is USER-FRIENDLY. Does one ever stop and realise that the sidebars of Google Search, GMail and other services have ad-links. Imagine the frustration when you go to a rich content site only to find pop-up ads and a cluttered UI which make it impossible to concentrate on the content of interest.

What is "Plan 9"? The name is taken from the title of the movie "Plan 9 From Outer Space" (1959, www.imdb.com/title/tt0052077). Google is going to deliver something out of the blue and so its being called Plan 9. And example, GMail came when the media was following the "Search Wars" between Yahoo, MSN and Google. None of the popular mail services were ready for this. And Google was successful in delivering a deadly and mighty blow.

Google is gearing for something big. It is reflected in the statement - "Browser is going to be the next OS". Ponder over this. My 2 cents and 4 kilobytes on this in the next post.