Google scores low on innovation index.

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Google is placed precarious and risky state as it depends 99% on search advertising for its revenue. Slowly and surely Google is going to loose its dominant position as China, Europe and India will have there own companies which well understand the local geography  and are surely likely to succeed to at least some degree in reducing the clout of Google. Google has added tens of new applications through Google Labs, but all of them turn out to be just incremental and no blockbuster product has been introduced which could turn the Industry Dynamics towards it.

Google is towards open sourcing, I think the opposite could help them; by going after revenues. For instance, they could enter the OS and Desk Top applications market by offering a full fledged Desk Top version of MS Office and charge 20% less than Microsoft. They already have a Cloud Version of Office software and they could convert the Design to a Desk Top version in about a month.

This gambit could create an additional source of income for Google and could seriously challenge the position of Microsoft.

Also, they could improve and refine search results by taking optional feedback from users about the relevance and usefulness of the search results shown. This way they could even increase their market share globally and in the US.