Google's trojan horse ?

WARNING! this post contains nothing other than speculation and conjecture but... What if Google's Desktop was actually a trojan horse for Google apps off-lining. By off-lining I mean the ability for a web based app to operate at least partially, in offline (i.e. disconnected from the net) mode, like a browser based address book that still works when the internet is disconnected.

Here me out, in order to enable off-lining of web applications (browser based) one needs some kind on desktop (offline) runtime or functionality. The basic form of this runtime should provide features like local storage, the ability to query that storage and synchronisation with the main servers.

Now Google desktop already unifies local and remote search, adding email, docs and even reader search from their online apps would be obvious. Slowly this joining or bonding of Google desktop (including the Google Toolbar) and their online apps features seems none to distant.

And what if Google opened the desktop API so that it could be used from say Firefox, enabling web based apps to provide the desired offline functionality (A developers nirvana) perhaps with built in Google search built in for free. Combine this with some support for development tools or plugins and both Microsoft and Adobe could be in big trouble with developers, developers , developers......

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