How Google Am I?

Though my blogger is opened up just lately, I have been a loyal Google fan for a long while. Google is more than just amazing. To put it simple, Google has put everything you want simple!

The thing I like most about Google is that it does not have anything unnecessary. When things come extra, they are bonuses. Google pages are neat and clear. I can downsize it, downlayer it, downfunction it whenever I don't want it, and keep it the 'least' and the most I need at the same time. 'Customizelism' is the Google philosophy I guess...

While Google is my soft-favourite, Apple is my hard-favourite, as a lot of friends know. The common feature between the two is, yes you get it, 'customizelism'. They both are stylish, while at this point Apple prevails in being cool; are function-rich, while the two cannot compare as they are in different business; and are trendy, needless to explain. Besides all these, they put to the front the previlage to choose our own style, own function and own trend. The annoying thing about Microsoft is that it sells too hard. I don't understand why anyone worries so much when it has a 95%+ market share. Perhaps it is decreasing, but its attitude has brought me an impression of stinginess. In the anti-competition litigation against Microsoft, though sometimes it is arguable that the Tying leaves chances 'of quitting' to customers (which is as rediculous as when IMF says non dominant countries can quit if they are not happy) and it is true when this playable word game is played in front of the judges, I am never convinced that this Tying is beneficial to consumers. Shameless statement.

Windows Live has undertaken a series of 'innovations' lately and generally it is at least a progress. Vista looks better than the previous versions, though it is obviously following the trend set by Macintosh. But the Live products never solve a problem fundamental. They don't care much about their consumers. They believe they are so good that consumers like them for granted. So their features, customized, are add-on's rather than bothway choices. The condition that I am able to customize my product is to accept something unwanted.

I am by no means a 'professional' user. But I am one of the end consumers. There are technologies beyond my knowledge of course, but I know whether I am comfortable with the product or not. This is why I fancy Google. I have not used every item listed in my Google, just a bit. But I think I am very Google already. Trying to list them:

Gmail, Web search, iGoogle, maps & earth, talk, books, scholar, blogger, documents, reader, YouTube, Chrome for a while, translate, and checkout always the Lab for fun, recently the Trends and the Mars (XM misses his hometown).

My homepages of iGoogle:

profile: this is the neatest profile layout ever. of fun, too.

home: i keep a puppy at home ;) he sleeps zZ, runs after my mouse, and rushes to the border (got too excited)!

tag 1: lines of news - google, bbc, China news, etc. and TedTalk.

tag 2: lines of other news - apple, law, etc. and i like the quotes.

tag 3: tools like wiki, currency, maps, amazon, etc. and i want a puppy!

i like the puppy footprint at the bottom of the wallpaper espacially ;)