If it wasn’t Cringely, you’d have to laugh. His predictions for 2006 suggest a big year in … 2007 for the Mountain Viewers.

However, nobody has been bolder than Robert X in forecasting the future of Google, so we take his words to heart:

Google will continue to roll out new products and services as it builds out its infrastructure for a huge push in 2007. They’ll need money, of course, so I predict a supplemental stock offering timed with a 20-to-1 stock split. 2006 is a building year for Google. … Google WON’T go head-to-head with Microsoft for a desktop operating system or a cheap PC.

The latter point has been made on this blog, so it’s good to see Cringely in agreement.

Note to the Frog: Why is it such a pain to lift a few choice words from your column? Don’t you know intellectual property theft is the driving force of the blogosphere? Google does.