Checking the morning round of news sites, I see that Google’s announcement of on-line storage is making a big splash. I fail to see the excitement. Not only is this already available elsewhere on the net, none of the other companies have a mission statement that reads like Google’s.

From http://www.google.com/corporate/:

“Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

Now why the hell would anyone want to put their data on Google’s servers? Or their documents?

I keep reading how Google is the Microsoft killer. Maybe they will be. But in the last few years I notice an increasing number of emails with boilerplate non-disclosure statements in the signature. I’ve worked for a few companies that were absolutely paranoid about their corporate documents. Who knows. Maybe that paranoia rubbed off on me, but even the less zealous companies I worked at weren’t the type that wanted their documents “universally accessible”.

Methinks Google needs to change their stated mission.