Business 2.0 ha realizado una encuesta a 50 personajes de la industria en los Estados Unidos sobre como lograr éxito en el 2007. Entre los entrevistados se encuentran Sergey Brin y Eric Schmidt de Google.

Sergey Brin
Simplicity is an important trend we are focused on. Technology has this way of becoming overly complex, but simplicity was one of the reasons that people gravitated to Google initially. This complexity is an issue that has to be solved for online technologies, for devices, for computers, and it’s very difficult. Success will come from simplicity. Look at Apple, the success they have had, and what they are doing.

We are focused on features, not products. We eliminated future products that would have made the complexity problem worse. We don’t want to have 20 different products that work in 20 different ways. I was getting lost at our site keeping track of everything. I would rather have a smaller set of products that have a shared set of features.

Eric Schmidt
Silicon Valley companies have a tendency to develop these systems that rely on complexity. But it produces things like the personal computer running Windows. Google from the beginning focused on the simple search box, the simple search page.

We have the tiger by the tail in that we have this huge phenomenon of personalization. Now we need to make it simpler for people. We are trying to shape the innovation going forward from here and get things more integrated, make Google more integrated. This is a big change in the way we run the company. In the past the philosophy has been «get this done, get it built, and get it out.» But continuing that, we would end up with hundreds of products named X-Google, and people can only remember five products.

De las 2 entrevistas se puede resumir lo siguiente: Google se va concentrar en el 2007 a mantener la simplicidad de sus aplicaciones y como ya lo habíamos mencionado a reducir su paleta de productos. Esperemos que no pierdan el rumbo por la cantidad de aplicaciones que actualmente tienen, y logren consolidar sus servicios fundamentales con funcionalidades interesantes para los usuarios.