Googles Homegrown Goods

Home-made products tend to vary in quality. Baked goods, for example, are usually far better coming out of an oven than a cardboard box. More complicated projects - such as kit cars, which are notoriously temperamental and unreliable - tend to underachieve in comparison to off-the-shelf versions. But Google is challenging this convention, according to some, by creating products to meet its needs. Google's inventions were originally born, like so many others, out of necessity. For the fledgling start-up, penny-pinching was a must, and so the site's creators cobbled together various components as was necessary. It turned out they were good at it. That tradition has continued, even as the company grew into its current rich-corporation configuration. Various reports and rumors indicate that Google creates many of its own servers, programs, and other components. Not all of these attempts meet with success - some of Google's servers are connected by Velcro to facilitate the swapping-out of failed units. And as noted in a New York Times Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web Technorati: Doug is a staff writer for murdok for the latest eBusiness news.