Greg Linden has blogged about Google’s Analyst Day. In particular he concentrates on an analysis of some of the slides in a Powerpoint presentation. Here are a few snippets:

Slide 31 says that Google’s philosophy to new product development is “no constraints” and that they initially ignore “CPU power, storage, bandwidth, and monetization.”

Slide 20 says (in the notes) that Google plans to “get all the worlds information, not just some.”

And slide 19 (in the notes) talks about how their work is inspired by the idea of “a world with infinite storage, bandwidth, and CPU power.” … “the online copy of your data will become your Golden Copy and your local-machine copy serves more like a cache”.

They say in the notes on slide 12 that they will “introduce new personalization elements” and that they view that as one of two major directions for their efforts to improve relevance rank.

It seems that the notes were removed from the PDF, but that Greg downloaded the original content.

ZDNet follows this up with the comment: “The GDrive service will provide anyone (who trusts Google with their data) a universally accessible network share that spans across computers, operating systems and even devices. Users will no longer require third party applications to emulate this behaviour by abusing Gmail storage.”

Google’s plans have been described as “wild evolution” compared to Yahoo’s systematic approach. Seems like the Googlers have got a pretty good idea where they want to go and are using a scattergun scenario to get there.