Few days back I read in Tech-Crunch – Why Google Pushed Buzz Out Before It Was Ready by Erick Schonfeld but I was too busy with my Newsletter of Go4Expert and Integrating it with Aweber and so could not post my views about the same but today I am bit free and so I thought I will do that now.
I don’t think they actually pushed Buzz but I think they launched Buzz when it was ready to handle millions of Buzz per hour. Erick forgot those stats of 160,000 comments and posts per hour.
Erick Schonfeld mentions 3 points where he assumes Google Pushed Buzz and so here is the clarification of each from my perspective.
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If you can buy something for less do you need to pay more for it? No, and if your answer is No I don’t think there is a point in more clarification. Same is the case with Google. A week later release would also mean Twitter react the same way. Don’t you think so? If they buy or don’t buy Twitter is all together a different story according to me. If Google have a product which can compete with the fastest growing product of 2009 why on Earth they will not launch it and why it is termed as pushing? In fact this means other players like Microsoft now need to push hard at buying Twitter and probably Google may not be interested in buying Twitter anymore.
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Google needs to have its own realtime micro-messaging communications system.
I don’t see this as a reason to push Buzz but just an addition of more functionality to GMail. Why on earth this can stand as a reason to push Buzz I don’t understand. As we all know Google have purchased many products in the past and integrating them has taken quite a bit of time. More than expected and if Buzz is well integrated right from the word go what is the harm. Why on earth it means a Push?
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Google already has twitter in Google Search Results and if they have product which can enhance Google Search I think this should be seen as step towards user based search.
Probably we all know Buzz had some serious bugs related privacy and Google addressed it faster than anybody could even think of. But my question is which software on this planet is bug free? I think it is a part of development and release and not pushing of products. It could be that they may have missed the privacy testing but that does not means hurrying on things but may be lack of good software development team or even testing team.
I don’t think Google Pushed Buzz. What about you?
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I agree with you on this partially but not fully because you may never know what was in the mind of Buzz team to put it online on a given day. Push or they thought it to be ready but yes to an extent it could be both.