Google Strikes Again

Posted on December 12, 2008
Filed Under Business, Gmail, Google, Google SMS, Internet, SMS, Science, business and technology, business trends, high tech, software, technology | 4 Comments

Ladies and Gentlemen, Google has introduced yet another great feature, Google SMS! It’s incredible in its simplicity. It is meant for contacting people who are not online when your Google Chat is enabled. The service allows your Google contacts to receive messages on their cell phones, as SMS. In other words, if you wish to contact someone who is not online at the moment and time is of the essence… NOW YOU CAN!!!

I have to wonder if Google is trying to bury Skype with all these new free additions. People have wondered for a long time how Skype can afford to give away its services completely free. Most don’t know that it really is not completely free. Skype charges for voice mail which Google now offers for free. Skype charges for SMS, with its latest move Google now gives that away for free. It seems to be in full frontal assault on Skype’s only real source of revenue and it seems safe to say that Google will just take over Skype’s market in much the same way that it is chipping away the E-mail market from Yahoo.

As more and more people use Gmail and its almost bottomless capacity for E-mails they are finding jit easier to stay on G-mail for chats as well. Even die hard Skype users seem to be using G-mail more and more, using Skype less and less. All this is for good reason as G-mail, chat and almost everything else is all on one page. It is the one stop solution for Web communication.

Even the the interface for this latest product is genius in its simplicity. When regular chat is impossible the SMS option appears in the exact same place and format with a warning that the recipient may need to pay for the incoming SMS and a quick option to go back to free chat.

Google says that this service is only applicable in the US for the time being. In many places where incoming SMS messages are completely free this service would provide yet free communication channel. In fact it would be very easy to send SMS messages from many free Wifi spots to any Cell phone in the world. All this free. This actually has been the trend to make everything free while earning money on advertising.

Google knows what it’s doing!

David Waldman

[Mr. Waldman is the author of the Search Maven blog and a frequent contributor to our pages, on technology, software and hi-tech business trends]

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4 Responses to “Google Strikes Again”

Brandi from New York, United States on December 12th, 2008 1:24 pm

David,

Google is not the first one to offer this feature, Yahoo has been doing that for a long time already!
David Waldman from Hefa, Israel on December 12th, 2008 2:07 pm

Hi Brandi,

If the option exists on Yahoo it is difficult to find and most people are not aware of it.

In any case Yahoo mail fades in comparison to Gmail in every category imaginable. The article was about Google and Gmail taking over the world.

Yahoo is just not in the same league
Brandi from New York, United States on December 12th, 2008 2:34 pm

It is right there on the IM console, staring you on the face. There is nothing hard about finding it!
shams from Madhya Pradesh, India on December 12th, 2008 2:58 pm

this was an excellent matter