what's happening to my best buddy ?
Google.

Google is the perfect tool. (2001)

But last few years, there's so much happening around it, that i am puzzled and dismayed.

Google was the perfect tool:
When using it, it did not reflected its priorities.
It gave its neat response to my queries. Whether i am at in LA, Brussels or Singapore it abstracted all that is personal. I never felt it as a American-product but rather as Computer-Science marvel.
Other day I read its CEO's remark. "When we look at myspace, its interesting. That's where we are going". That says it all.

Please leave google alone.
There is so much to do in search that I believe it will keep google busy for the most part of century. But where are they moving the ship ?

To Personalization and community.

In next few years, I see the halo around google becoming more americanised. As they go for personalization I can see the people in other parts of world distancing from google and joining there own communities.

Google was trying hard to distance its gmail based solution from its search tool. But with login link and personalized search, it crossed the limit.

The worst that happened was google news. How could they do this? Google news displays a blatant preference for US view. With a cursory glance on gnews, I know the preferences of google.

In between there was blog/jobs/video/classifieds/ ... and now calendar

It looks like a company of greedy-hungry people trying to put finger in every pie.
Of course, they have to make money. But at the cost of my favorite tool was never a good choice.

Waiting for the next pure search only site, which just searches and does not 'save'.