I disagree with BusinessWeek

BusinessWeek is reporting that Google’s non-search products are failures. I wholeheartedly disagree. I quote:

Consider just a few examples: Google Talk, an instant-messaging service launched last August, now ranks No. 10, garnering just 2% of the number of users for market leader MSN Messenger, according to comScore Media Metrix. Three-month-old Google Finance, heralded as a competitor to market leader Yahoo! Finance, has settled in as the 40th-most-visited finance site, according to data from Hitwise, a competitive intelligence firm. Gmail, the e-mail service that was lauded at its 2004 launch for offering 500 times as much storage space as some rivals (they quickly closed the gap), today is the system of choice for only about one-quarter the number of people who use MSN and Yahoo e-mail.

Google Talk is my favorte instant messenger because it’s fast, lightweight, integrates with Gmail, and has no ads. AIM is bloatware by comparison.

Google Finance has some neat features, and while I don’t use it, it’s nice to have an alternative. Previously, Yahoo Finance was the only site in this sector that didn’t totally stink.

And Gmail rocks. The #1 reason people don’t use Gmail is that they are ignorant. Enough said.

Popularity is not success. Google should continue to release more products, and they’re doing a great job of it. Keep it up. I can imagine life without Gmail, and it sucks.

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