SOA filling the Gaps

Searching the Web  Search Engine is Google 's most strategic product. Some of its other products are using it as component of the services they provide.  Limitation or failure of it, as described in  Why we desperately need a New (and Better) Google  cited in part1 of this post , could negatively affect Google's market position. This is a major challenge facing Google.  Google has no control of some of the factors limiting its effectiveness. Challenges in Searching the Web The following bullets describe major Web Data problems, which could affect Web Search: The data is growing exponentially The amount of data is growing fast.  A Search Engine should handle larger amounts of pages and probably will find more and more number of pages in each search operation results list.  Implications:  Users will not read all entries in search results list. They will focus in the first entries. Search Engines results order should be accurate so us...

I recently read Steve Yegge 's very interesting post cited by  Rip's Rowan . According to Rip it is "The best article I've ever read about architecture and the management of IT".  It is a very interesting post which was intended to be internal memoranda and accidently was published externally. I read it in the right time: just after publishing in my blog a post titled:  Will Google Survive until 2021? Revisited - part 1  and before publishing part 2.  You can read it here . I recommend reading it from start to end although it is a long post.  As a former Amazon employee and current Google employee he discusses the limitations and strengths of the two companies (more criticism than praise) and compares them to Apple , Facebook and Microsoft .  He discusses both technological aspects, focusing on what he calls Internal SOA and  on Organizational Culture.   Few Notes The notes do not support or dispute Steve's views. They just s...

Three years ago I wrote one of my Vendors Survival posts. The post was titled:  Vendors Survival: Will Google Survive until 2018? The Vendors Survival posts analyze the probability that vendors will survive for at least ten years. Most of them are about leading vendors such as Apple , Microsoft , HP , EMC etc. The previous post was on Zapthink, a small SOA and Cloud Analysts and Consultants company acquired by Dovel Systems. Ten years predictions are usually inaccurate. However, The only leading vendor I predicted that will not survive was SUN Microsystems , who was shortly afterwards an acquisition target for IBM and acquired by Oracle . I recently read Google's announcement about shutting down some of its products  and  a similar announcement  about other products . Shutting down products and services looks like a sign of weakening. Some people argue that Google Social Software initiatives like Buzz, Jaiko and Google+ fails to compete with Facebook ...