Friday, January 21, 2011

What should Larry Page focus on now that he is the CEO of Google?


1. Make Android a real usability leader, not just a marketshare leader. I've been using Android a lot lately, and it simply isn't as nice as iPhone or, even, Windows Phone 7, in usability. Heck, even Palm/HP is nicer to use, although they suck for sticking their great OS in such a crappy piece of hardware with a small screen.

2. Get onto the playing field in social. I already have more followers on Quora than I have on Google Buzz. That's pathetic.

3. Fix search relevancy. Many people have shown me places where spammers and intermediaries have totally taken over search result pages. Don't give people a reason to complain and wonder why Google's main business is rotting.

4. Make Google TV something that we HAVE to own. How? Well, if it let me watch YouTube Live that would be one small start. Make a deal with Netflix and the movie industry to have first-run movies on it, while other devices get only the lame old stuff.

5. Find a reason for Chrome OS to exist or kill it. Of course, after talking to Zoho's CEO about the pre-production Google Chrome Notebook maybe the goal should simply be to ship it.

Don't take on too much at once, the company is working great as it is.

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