Google to offer paid services?
Recent history has thought us that Google’s policy is to buy payed services/applications (Picasa, Earth, Urchin) and than release it to the masses for free. A pointer from the Measuremap forums shows that this is going to change soon:
Multiple blogs: lots of people have asked us for the ability to track multiple blogs per account. We will likely release this in two stages: first, you’ll be able to add as many blogs as you want. Later, we will be offering some tools to help you compare the traffic between your blogs. Both of these will probably be paid features when we launch our “unlimited” version of Measure Map.
I guess these will rather be the premium accounts that are going to accompany the free plans (similar to analytics) – don’t you think?
Yes…this is were all starts…with premium accounts. After that bye bye free POP3 and a lot of other advantages. Than all will crumble down, a new fresh “don no evil” competitor will appear and the bubble will start again