Google Acquires Online Word Processing

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http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/writely-so.html


For the last five months, I've been part of a Silicon Valley startup called Upstartle, which makes Writely, a collaborative word processor that runs in a web browser. Well, as of Monday, I'm happy to say that I, and the rest of the Writely team, are now part of Google.

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Rumors turned out to be true. Google vs. Microsoft on the virtual desktop.

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So will Google give it away for free?

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Is that a joke? :)

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Here is an interesting post about what Google's intentions might be with Writely:

http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/what_googles_acquisition_of_writely_means.php


So will Google give it away for free?

Why charge a user a one time for a service when you can run ads on the software and have a continuous stream of income??? If a user pays for the service than Google has to take the ads off.

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Funny how yesterday the news was about a $90 mil bill and today its about them buying someone.. ummm..

PR machine is working hard to distract ;)