Is Google preparing to take over the universe? Sounds like a silly question until you look at everything that Google has announced in just the last month. Google is in the process of crushing or getting-ready-to-crush a number of businesses. For example:

1) Google navigation:

New Google Navigation app shows what happens when you combine a GPS receiver with Internet access and Google Maps

Every GPS manufacturer has to worry about this (Garmin stock fell from $38 to $27 on the news, although it has since recovered some), especially because of the spread of…

2) Google Android:

Android got a huge boost this month because of all of the hype around the Droid phone:

Motorola Droid: The first Android 2.0 phone runs Google Navigation

The obvious target here is the Apple’s iPhone (see An in-depth head-to-head comparison of the Motorola Droid and the iPhone 3GS), and it is the first phone to seriously challenge the iPhone. Apple is definitely in Google’s sights.

In the meantime, Symbian looks like it could die in the process:

Why is Google Android beating Symbian?

3) Google Voice + Gizmo5:

The title says it all:

Google poised to become your phone company

It’s a potent recipe — take Gizmo5′s open standards-based online calling system. Add to it the new ability to route calls on Google’s massive network of cheap fiber. Toss in Google Voice’s free phone number, which will ring your mobile phone, your home phone and your Gizmo5 client on your laptop.

Meanwhile you can use Gizmo5 to make ultracheap outgoing calls to domestic and international phone numbers, and free calls to Skype, Google Talk, Yahoo and AIM users. You could make and receive calls that bypass the per-minute billing on your smartphone.

Then layer on deluxe phone services like free SMS, voicemail transcription, customized call routing, free conference calls and voicemails sent as recordings to your e-mail account, and you have a phone service that competes with Skype, landlines and the Internet telephone offerings from Vonage and cable companies.

Vonage and Skype go down, along with companies like Time-Warner as it’s Vonage-like service dries up.

4) Google Chrome OS:

Google is creating its own operating system for desktop, laptop and netbook computers:

- Google Chrome OS Launching Next Week?

- Google Holding Chrome OS Event Thursday [Nov 19]. Complete Overview And Launch Plans To Be Revealed.

- Chrome OS – Google’s answer to Windows??

The entire computing fraternity is waiting in bated breath to see if Google’s OS can prove to be a formidable competitor to Microsoft’s Windows…

Google expects to create a wave with their new lightweight operating system. “Speed, simplicity & security” are the 3 key aspects of Google Chrome. Since the era of web based computing has arrived, Google Chrome has been designed in such a way that users can just start up & get on to the web in a few seconds. All of the user’s data will be stored in a cloud so that a user can have access to data anywhere.

Obviously this is a shot across the bow of Microsoft.

5) Google Docs:

Google says Docs to catch up to Office next year

Google Docs directly competes with the Microsoft Office suite at a much lower cost.

6) Google’s new Internet protocol:

SPDY: Google wants to speed up the web by ditching HTTP

Google isn’t content with providing us with fast search and a fast browser: we need a faster protocol between servers and browsers. The search giant would like us to start forgetting about HTTP:// and learn to love SPDY://. Ars takes a look at the proposal as well as its strengths and weaknesses.

7 ) Google Music Search:

Making search more musical

two of the top 10 queries in the U.S. are music-related. But often, if your answer is in a song, it can take a while to get there. We call this “time to result” — and we’re always looking for ways to reduce it.

Today [Oct 28], we’re rolling out a search feature that does just that by enabling you to search and more easily discover millions of songs, all via a simple Google web search. If you’re searching for music, “time to result” is really “time to music.” Now, when you enter a music-related query — like the name of a song, artist or album — your search results will include links to an audio preview of those songs provided by our music search partners MySpace (which just acquired iLike) or Lala. When you click the result you’ll be able to listen to an audio preview of the song directly from one of those partners.

8 ) Don’t forget Google Wave…

…which grew significantly this month with more invites:

Google opens up Wave federation

Google took an important step on Monday in the development of Google Wave, opening its servers up to outsiders who want their own waves to communicate with the outside world.

See also: Strength in science collaboration

9 ) And Google books isn’t new…

…but got a lot of attention this month:

Google’s desire to scan old books has critics casting it as Goliath

A broad array of opponents, ranging from Google competitors Microsoft and Amazon to libraries and copyright scholars, has joined forces to oppose Google’s proposal to create a comprehensive online repository of the books and split the revenue from access to that catalog with authors and publishers.

All of those opponents might be joining forces because Google is getting ready to crush them.

That is an amazing array of products and services…

…and that’s just one month.

It’s a legitimate question: Is Google preparing to take over the universe? When Google announces that it is going after Wal-Mart, we will know that it is true.