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Google Adds to Online Office Suite with Spreadsheet
June 5, 2006
Coming only a few months after it purchased the Writely online word processor, Google has added another application to its online application suite with the announcement of an online spreadsheet.
While the online spreadsheet concept is new for Google (and the Reuters article implies that it's new to everyone), plenty of alternatives already exist, including iRows, Zoho, NumSum, and spreadsheet-database mashups like Trackslife.
More and more, when we post about Google, it's not always easy to answer the question, "What does this have to do with 'Search'?" Google's move into things like desktop gadgetry sometimes distracts us from the bigger picture. But an online office suite really isn't a distant leap away from the search box - or at least the Desktop search box. Assume that any spreadsheet you create with Google Spreadsheets will be fully indexed by your personal Google Desktop search, and that you (and anyone with whom you collaborate, chat, gmail, or otherwise share sheet-based information) will have quick access to it from any computer on which you've signed into your Google account.
The forums and blogs have plenty of armchairistics and first-round critiques, ranging from "great idea" to wondering who in their right mind would trust sensitive data to a web storage system. Few from the latter camp seem to remember a similar brouhaha when we learned companies like Amazon would store our credit card data (!) within their server farms.
I eagerly await Google's imminent version of PowerPoint and its likely ability to bore large masses of people on a much more efficient, scalable level.
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posted by Erik Dafforn at June 5, 2006 11:35 PM
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