wheel - 7:06 pm on Sep 18, 2008 (gmt 0)

>>>You can begin to see the plan behind all those diverse products that Google is developing, and their almost insatiable appetite for data.

It's all very web 2.0 tech bubble. And it's nice to clutter up blogs with fanciful ponderings. But the fact is, in Google's lifetime they've come up with exactly two things:
1) using backlinks as citations
2) adwords, to monetize their newfound concept that backlinks are citations.

They've had one hit out of the park, and ever since a complete string of strikeouts. We're much more likely to see the next thing from Apple or MSN than GOogle - they've both got decades of showing they can get on base repeatedly.