Could Google Be Building an Everything Killer?

Search giant Google has been doing more than search for some time now, but just what are they working toward? Could they be preparing to launch the killer app that will define this AJAX-rich Web 2.0 movement that I keep hearing about? Let the speculation begin.

First, let's look at Google's popular services and try to tie them together.

The services -
Google Calendar
Social scheduling application.

Gmail Talk
A robust and nearly limitless email and chat service.

Google Groups
Discussion groups.

Google News
Automatically sorted news.

Google Page Creator
Website design tool.

Personalized Search / Search History

Blogger

Google Reader

This is a very impressive list. But you must admit that some of the services don't stand on there own so well.

Picture, if you will, an online social application, similar to MySpace, or Facebook, or even Google's own Orkut. Most of these have a private messaging feature similar to a scaled-back email client, a profile feature, a blog function, and a calendar function.

Now, picture an online social application not centered around a profile but centered around Gmail. Centering it around an email client would make users more active than simply centering it around a profile.

With Google Calendar integration coming to Gmail and Google Talk totally integrated into Gmail, when can safely assume that Gmail will be the center of this evolving application. Now, could Blogger be integrated into Gmail?

Each Blogger user has a profile tied to a user name which is of course tied to an email address, so links to a contacts blog and profile could be added to the Gmail Talk "quick contacts" section next to the person's name, email address, and online status. Bring Google Reader into Gmail and make it easy for users to add the RSS feeds of people who are on your "friends" list to the Reader, and we have knocked out two of the services on our list.