Eric Schmidt was just riffing, and his off-the-cuff comments shouldn't be regarded as a pointer to Google's future. But—interesting, nonetheless. Schmidt was musing at a tech conference when he said—
``The next killer device is a clearly a personal one,'' Schmidt said. ``The one I personally favor is putting all the world's information into the equivalent of an iPod, which will be possible in the next five to 10 years. And if you can't quite do that, your wireless connection will help you get what you need.''
Gary Price at Search Engine Watch calls this vision a GooglePod.
1. Dear Google CEO/Directors: Wonderful that you are going to let us search in libraries! Working on family histories, genealogy, there are potentially millions of us who want you to put genealogical records available in library collections into your Internet data base. Please begin by putting the New York Public Library's books and records of genealogical interest into your library data base. All of us who have ancestors who have lived (born, married, died) in New York State need this! Church records also. Please and Thanks! Lorna Freihofer, Marin Co., California
Posted at 4:42AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Lorna Freihofer