All Google, All the Time

Given how Google has dominated the technology landscape this week with the release of Desktop 2.0 and Google Talk, Download Squad's Victor Agreda, Jr. decided to install a bunch Google applications (Desktop, Talk, Earth, Toolbar, Gmail, Picasa, etc.) just to see how a Google-dominated world looks like – an exercise that probably appeals to all those anti-Microsoft folks out there. For the most part, Victor is fairly impressed, even though launching Firefox is a little slower and his PC is using more horsepower. The one thing he'd like to see – and it's really only a matter of time – is the integration of all these Google applications into one seamless super-system (a.k.a. a New New OS??). Rick Segal has some thoughts on the adoption of Google Talk, and whether people who downloaded it will actually use it.