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Google Moves In.

Unless you’ve been living at the bottom of the ocean for the last 4 years, you’ve heard of a little internet company called Google™. Well, how would you feel if this friendly little internet GIANT was moving into your town and developing massively complex buildings, data centers and cooling plants? Would you welcome The Goog with open arms? Or would you plant your foot in the ground and say “nay”? Either way, once a company like this makes up it’s mind, you can bet they’ll get the job done. Most people, companies and probably countries by now, would shutter at the thought of loosing Google as an ally. Oregon has become a new breeding ground for technology and the use of what that technology produces, it’s no surprise that Google wanted to establish a dominant presence here,  and now Microsoft is inching in too.

Microsoft and Yahoo both have announced plans to build big data centers in Wenatchee, Wash., 130 miles north of The Dalles, Oregon., where Google is installing it’s next “plex”. This as some analysts have said, will create a “multibillion-dollar-face-off” among Google, Microsoft and Yahoo that could predict the future of internet dominance.

Aviv’s Thoughts: In recent news Microsoft has made an offer to acquire Yahoo for a premium price at exactly $44.6 billion. Steve Ballmer led this attempt at acquiring the fledgling search engine because he felt it might help Microsoft in their quest against Google, (among other reasons….MSN ?). Once intense discussion began, it was only a matter of time before Jerry Yang was somehow offended by Steve Ballmer, and somehow the deal managed to fall apart. While all of this is happening, Google is sifting through it’s rolodex, calling up Jerry Yang and telling him not to worry. So, as far as Microsoft having anything to compete with, at this point, it’s only themselves and the salesman by degree who has somehow managed to become CEO.

“Local residents are at once enthusiastic and puzzled about their affluent but secretive new neighbor, a successor to the aluminum manufacturers that once came seeking the cheap power that flows from the dams holding back the powerful Columbia. The project has created hundreds of construction jobs, caused local real estate prices to jump 40 percent and is expected to create 60 to 200 permanent jobs in a town of 12,000 people when the center opens later this year.” quotes the New York Times.

“We’re trying to organize our chamber ambassadors to have a ribbon-cutting ceremony, and they’re trying to keep us all away,” said Susan Huntington, executive director of The Dalles Area Chamber of Commerce. “Our two cultures aren’t matching very well.”

I personally both admire and respect Google very much for it’s continued effort to remain balanced. Their company motto “Don’t Be Evil” can be followed by all, not just The Goog. By Google creating these jobs in locations such as The Dalles, OR., they are also creating and paving the way for perhaps the next small internet startup just like them. They are creating possibilities for people who may not have otherwise had them. Benefits for people who may not have otherwise had them. Somehow through the complex maze of politics and obstruction, Google remains balanced and well-defined.

Original article here.