A UK developer and blog writer by the name of Tony Ruscoe has discovered some of Google’s deep, dark secrets. He sniffed through some of Google’s URLs and came across one of note: sandbox.google.com. This page contains a Google Checkout service, but it’s not actually the real Google service. Instead it’s some kind of internal testing page.
Via Tony’s account he created on the testing Google Checkout service, he discovered and subsequently added several unreleased Google services. For a complete list, see Tony’s site, but some of the more promising services include: Google Guess, Google Writely, and Google WiFi. Whatever could these be, and what could their launch mean for Apple (who seems to be becoming increasingly threatened by Google)?
[via Google Blogoscoped]
Well, I know that Google Writely is the online word processor that will roll out soon (is still in beta). We'll see what happens when it rolls out. Go Google.
What makes you say that Apple is becoming increasingly threatened by Google?
What have I missed?
Writely is an online word processor that Google bought a few weeks ago.
I would guess that Google Writely is probably exactly what it seems, given Google's purchase of that company not long ago. But can you clarify your comment that Apple seems increasingly threatened by Google? How so? Microsoft, maybe, but Apple is first and foremost a hardware company.