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Why Google will remain king of search

msnbc.msn.com — Even with the bid by Microsoft to buy Yahoo, the combined company would be unable to knock Google off its web search and web advertising throne, industry watchers say.

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  • Truckondo, on 02/03/2008, -10/+52iGoogle home page FTW!
    • BigBallistix, on 02/03/2008, -1/+16I know! It's so awesome! I've got 4 tabs worth of applets, Digg and reddit are of course on the front. So is wiki gmail and hotmail. So damn useful! When Google achieve world domination, I will happily donate my sperm to their cybernetic car-key finding bots.
      • copaceticZ, on 02/03/2008, -2/+4they'll certainly only use lesbian bone marrow by then idiot!
        • BigBallistix, on 02/03/2008, -3/+1I believe it was the "embryonic stem cells" actually...
      • TheXuu, on 02/03/2008, -0/+7with a name like BigBalllstix I bet his sperm hasn't found anything other then a shower drain or an old sock.
        • BigBallistix, on 02/07/2008, -0/+1Oh wow I didn't think of that interpretation of my username. I've sent job applications with the same email address lol.
      • jrbrewin, on 02/03/2008, -1/+2when google (or any massive multinational that knows what we're doing online) achieves world domination, we're all screwed.
    • drizzlelicious, on 02/03/2008, -1/+9Now if we can only revert the Digg applet to how it looked like before
    • LightSpeed4, on 02/03/2008, -7/+2my yahoo is so much better, you look like a ***** douchebag saying "iGoogle." You actually went through the effort of lowercasing the "i." Wow...
      • jrbrewin, on 02/03/2008, -1/+3alas, people don't realise that there are able competitors to google's personalised homepage out there. I use netvibes, for example, and i'm loving it.
        • northerngeek, on 02/03/2008, -0/+1Yep Netvibes is fantastic, I am a big MS and Yahoo fan but Netvibes is fantastic, especially with the upcoming Ginger release- leagues ahead. I tried using live.com but it doesn't have the same usability. Shame that when Google does take over the world there'll be nobody left to be innovative.
      • londubh, on 02/03/2008, -0/+6My Yahoo! sucks. iGoogle is much cleaner. I have both.
    • OpticalLiam, on 02/03/2008, -0/+4netvibes is so much better
    • secleinteer, on 02/03/2008, -0/+10about:blank home page FTW!!!
  • themoosejuice, on 02/03/2008, -4/+15Nothing lasts forever, but cash in while you can
    • lordmetroid, on 02/03/2008, -1/+6Sooner or later a new competitor with a better services will come into the market. It is inevetable and it is a good thing! It benefits everyone in the long-run.
      • gquaglia, on 02/03/2008, -3/+4Maybe so, but it isn't going to be MS.
        • LightSpeed4, on 02/03/2008, -3/+2yes it will, they are pushing momentum with the yahoo purchase.
    • rpgmaker, on 02/03/2008, -0/+7To me Google is king and will remain that way basically for the same reason that Microsoft has the bigger OS market share: inertia.
      • jrbrewin, on 02/03/2008, -0/+4the difference being, of course, that google has one main revenue stream, and without that're they dead in the water. One target is much easier to attack than say, all of microsoft's, although google are trying to take that away from them.
        ultimately, yahoo+microsoft is a good thing. You may hate microsoft, you may hate yahoo. but the almagamation of them would create much needed competition in the search space and may make google un-beta, or develop new products/services quicker (read, innovate), instead of purchasing every new silicon valley startup they clap their sight on.
        remember kids, competition good. monopoly bad.
        • voyvf, on 02/03/2008, -1/+1"competition good. monopoly bad."

          It's for exactly this reason that I hope Google goes ahead and either creates its own Linux distro from scratch, or builds off of Ubuntu and releases it. I know they're rather fond of it in-house, but making it available to the public could force Microsoft to fix a lot of things in their OS that have been bugging their consumers, thus stimulating the competition to do better. That way, everyone wins.
  • yeslovelife, on 02/03/2008, -1/+106does anyone else find this funny that this is on MSnbc.MSN.com a MS controlled network?
    • Gareth1337, on 02/03/2008, -3/+17Yeah that's funny, but I guess they're not always regulating. Haha I remember when msnbc was the only news source that gave a poor iphone review. Wonder how this slipped by...
      • DarkShroud, on 02/04/2008, -0/+1Probably because they didn't hack theirs. We all know how MS "likes" modding things.
    • naj0rt, on 02/03/2008, -1/+8Microsoft wants the deal approved by regulators so its not surprising msn.com is running a story playing down the effect the take over would have.
      • pw378, on 02/03/2008, -2/+2Bingo! Give this man a star!!
        Microsoft is playing the rope-a-dope, trying to look beat down and half-dead, but nothing could be further from the truth. This helps them avoid more regulation, quicker approvals for mergers, and maybe nobody will say anything when they integrate MicroHoo search into their OS.
        • Mattja, on 02/03/2008, -1/+1MicroHoo? Epic Fail there my friend.
          ¥ahsoft FTW.
      • jrbrewin, on 02/03/2008, -0/+3in exactly the same way google were downplaying the way them creating an online advertising monopoly with their take over of doubleclick. omg, how dare business spin the media in such a way! :o
    • xatx2, on 02/03/2008, -16/+3MSNBC does not filter its news the way Google does, damn you're an idiot
    • jman82s, on 02/03/2008, -5/+5And let us not forget when Ubuntu showed up on windowsmarketplace.com...heh.
    • lut4rp, on 02/03/2008, -6/+1Really, i mean, yeah, we know that MSNBC is an impartial network, but theres something called common sense, and something called dignity also! if M$ wants to be so impartial, why rigg the live.com search results so that no torrents, cracks etc. arent found? let me bet 50 diggs, this story's gonna be off the site in a few days max :) though as if we care... Damage done Billy!
      • jrbrewin, on 02/03/2008, -0/+4first off, you're an ass if you call Microsoft M$... hence why you've already been digged down.
        Secondly, live.com may be filtering results for illegal content because it's still very much a legal grey area, resulting which numerous websites being taken to court, at the very least legally threatened. ffs, i get that you're a child, but please try to understand that microsoft have fallen foul of the law many times, and are trying to right-side it for once. Personally, i'd be more worried by google, which can, and does, keep a track of all search activity, and god-knows what else, coupled with the fact that for some reason it DOES link to illegal content, openly.
  • liquidmetalband, on 02/03/2008, -5/+13LOL and it's from MSN.

    But yeah, it's not that ironic, since MSN only gets its news from other outlets. It doesn't write its own news, otherwise this certainly wouldn't be the headline.
  • copaceticZ, on 02/03/2008, -20/+3Don't waste your money Microsoft! Make xbox-live into a fully integrated social network it makes sense...I believe if you did it right you could kick myspace's ass but it's going to take a lot of balls and a lot of features which will be scary....but think about if you owned myspace only you could charge 50 bucks a year for it it was so awesome i bet your getting a major hard-on right?(or you could advertise a lot more because you realize game consumers do not really mind advertisement in games unless it slows down/stops/focus on in a sickenly bad way.anyways rock on i love my halooooo's!
    • ShiningToast, on 02/03/2008, -0/+2The absolute LAST thing I need is my Xbox Live being synonymous with Myspace.
  • kinglenster, on 02/03/2008, -10/+20Yahoo and MSN Search totally suck that is why. They need to delete and start over if they want to rival Google.
    • jstohler, on 02/03/2008, -0/+5Thank you -- I've been saying this for long time now, but here it goes again: Google has the best search algorithm, period. By combining, Yahoo and MSN aren't suddenly going to be better. They still have to pick one algorithm, and whichever one they pick will still trail Google. How hard is this for MSFT to understand?
    • MioTheGreat, on 02/03/2008, -6/+3You obviously haven't used it since it became Live Search.

      It's come a very long way since it was MSN Search.
      • kinglenster, on 02/03/2008, -0/+5Every time I use MSN/Yahoo I never find what I'm looking for, just a ton of crappy ads. Then I go back to Google.
        • LightSpeed4, on 02/03/2008, -2/+1user error.
        • Sinten, on 02/03/2008, -0/+4which is unfortunate as the same user who gets the so called "user error" with msn/yahoo will get the results they want with google

          guess which sites receives the hits then? the one that works and doesn't allow errors
        • JoeRW, on 02/04/2008, -0/+1Your first search choices on Google aren't going to be so great either. Seriously, I thought this myself, but then I realised that I was biased against live search such that if I got a result that wasnt to my liking Id immediately go to google, and pick a DIFFERENT result even though Google had the link I clicked on live.com anyway.
    • pw378, on 02/03/2008, -0/+9Microsoft does not want to do search... what they want is the advertising dollars Google is making. If search was a no-profit game, Microsoft wouldn't even be trying.

      Microsoft doesn't understand that if you put the product AHEAD of the money, the money will follow.... This is why Google is genius! Money is always secondary to Google, which is why Microsoft will NEVER understand how to compete with them.
      • kowalzki, on 02/03/2008, -0/+1oh please! adsense domain parking too?
      • DarkShroud, on 02/04/2008, -0/+1If Money was second they would send people checks more instead of holding the money to borrow against.
  • Hervard, on 02/03/2008, -5/+40Right now, Google is simple and powerful, providing decent search results and useful online tools (Gmail, Docs, Groups, etc).

    Microsoft's online presence is a joke, apart from maybe MSN/Live Messenger and Xbox Live. But... Live? Spaces? Oh please.

    Yahoo's search results are a letdown and its services are more for entertainment purposes, not for getting stuff done. Pipes? Java games and chatting? Flickr and Answers are cool, but only to a certain degree. Yahoo provides novelty items more than anything.

    MSN and Yahoo provide portals to news and other tidbits, unlike Google, which just gives you a search box to help you along your way, keeping it simple, stupid!

    I remember when Yahoo was all the rage, but then came along Google. It didn't happen overnight, but it did happen and still is. Perhaps Google will be overthrown one day, but it certainly won't be by Yahoo and/or Microsoft.
    • TomFrost, on 02/03/2008, -0/+4Remember back in the early days, when right next to the search bar on Yahoo, you'd see 'powered by Google'? They were, indeed, business partners until Google split off to do their own thing. I'd really love to know the terms of that and the reason they left -- but I'm sure glad they did.
    • EntropyFan, on 02/03/2008, -0/+3Netscape said the same thing.
      So did Novel with NetWare.
      It mostly depends on how complacent Google has become. If they are as arrogant and ignorant as most of the posters here, they are going to learn the same lesson the companies I mentioned above did...
      • voyvf, on 02/03/2008, -1/+2I agree with part of your comment. Ignorance and complacency both kill. It's a fact of life. (Don't believe me? Stop paying attention while driving.)

        However, as far as arrogance is concerned, a certain amount of hubris is required to become successful, as well as stay successful. One must be willing to say, "I'm right, and you're wrong, and I'm going to prove why this is the case in no uncertain terms."

        However, I think that Google has already learned this lesson, and learned it early on. If I'm wrong, someone better will emerge, which would of course be better. :D
  • copaceticZ, on 02/03/2008, -13/+2also might I mention i am a commited 360 fanboy but even i use firefox and never touch ms search/yahoo search I haven't opened IE in 2 years nor yahoo or msn at least google owns do not fight the google it is futile! you must massage the google obviously nobody wants any one company to own everything and we play favorites google is like the supemodel of search.
    • AirRaven, on 02/03/2008, -3/+9>also might I mention i am a commited 360 fanboy but even i use firefox and never touch ms search/yahoo search I haven't opened IE in 2 years...

      Put bluntly, who cares?
    • chrishiggins, on 02/03/2008, -0/+1Not every website is compatible with Firefox yet. It took at least three years for my university's course registration system to become compatible.
      Give it maybe another year or two, and Firefox will be fully compatible across the board. I can guarantee, however, that it won't be universally used: as long as both Microsoft and Mozilla keep rolling out new iterations of their browsers and new features, there will still be healthy competition. Microsoft could stand, however, to start posting small updates (like Mozilla does) to keep itself competitive.
      • DarkShroud, on 02/04/2008, -0/+1Check out the IE7 pro add-on if you want IE to be competitive. It adds a lot of FF's features to IE.
  • LimeParrot, on 02/03/2008, -3/+29Dugg for the Google Fish... ROFL!
  • TrekkieDude, on 02/03/2008, -4/+3To be honest, knowing Microsoft's history, one of the problems I have always had with the Microsoft search engine, in any form, is the perceived or real, lack of impartiality to the search results. There are stories that have done the rounds for many years, where Microsoft omits, manipulates information for their own end. MS Virtual Earth, and Apple being one example that springs to mind (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/25/msn_earth_ ... I am not saying the Google is any more, or less impartial, however for me that is the main reason why I use Google.
  • BigBallistix, on 02/03/2008, -9/+1Umm, I don't mean to go Zen on all you excitable sugar-junky-insomniacs, but with Google finding ways to find so many different kinds of things that we look for - do you think that the more intelligent 'it' becomes, the more likely we will see an AI achieve enlightenment? Could Buddha be reincarnated as Google?
    • MicrosoftBob, on 02/03/2008, -0/+3No.
    • voyvf, on 02/03/2008, -0/+1In short: No.

      It wouldn't affect the likelihood of an AI, but it would give the AI a better resource to draw upon if such a thing as a real, thinking and evolving AI were to be successfully invented.
  • kayjay, on 02/03/2008, -6/+1just like an analyst said on BBC: 6 years ago everyone would be using AOL...
    4 years ago everyon used yahoo... noone knows!
  • 888gavin, on 02/03/2008, -4/+9Of course Google is going to stay on top of the market, this is not news. Anyone who thinks Microsoft + Yahoo even stands a chance against Google is a fool.
  • SteveDeGroof, on 02/03/2008, -3/+10Google doesn't have to worry about MS & Yahoo. They're too bogged down by legacy infrastructure to come up with anything even remotely competitive.

    What they do need to worry about is a new startup coming out of nowhere. There's nothing more terrifying than couple of college kids nobody's ever heard of, sitting around saying, "you know what'd be really cool..."
  • BingoPower, on 02/03/2008, -1/+13Even if other search engine's got the edge over google (unlikely), google's userbase would remain loyal through all the other API efforts Google has introduced.

    That and Google's now a frickin' Verb :)
    • daveisfera, on 02/03/2008, -0/+1The fact that it has become a verb is something that even Google is worried about, because they're afraid that they'll become the next "kleenex" (commonly used word to refer to a type of product and not a specific brand).
    • voyvf, on 02/03/2008, -0/+3Err, I would not remain loyal to a search engine that was inferior. So, if a better search engine came out, I would use that. Preference of a product does not - some, myself included, might say *should not* - necessarily mean preference to a brand or company.

      I mean, if the latest Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo console were to come out, and have all the playability of the ET game for the Atari, only the moronic (re: fanboys of the applicable company) would adopt that latest release as the Next Big Thing™. Everyone else would keep their hard earned cash and spend it on something worth more than the arse of a leprous midget.
      • BingoPower, on 02/03/2008, -0/+1Dugg for "arse of a leprous midget".
  • digitalhippie, on 02/03/2008, -1/+10What MS and Yahoo! need to do is innovate. They are trying to out Google, Google and that simply does not work. They need to focus more on creation rather than destruction. Those are my two cents.
    • jwdav, on 02/03/2008, -0/+2While I agree that innovation would be one way out, it raises the question of who exactly is going to do the innovating? Companies and committees don't innovate, individuals or very small teams do. I don't see any creative individuals or small teams anywhere, just a collision of two companies who have lost their way.
  • Fella, on 02/03/2008, -8/+4It's all in a name. Google rolls off the tongue, rolls off the fingertips and speeds through searches.

  • mrynit, on 02/03/2008, -6/+1google thinks I'm a bot more often when i search for things . I'm starting to use ask.com and it has better features
  • jm4847, on 02/03/2008, -5/+9No one uses Yahoo! or Live Mail, only retards who barely know how to turn on a computer and open IE.
    • Morte42, on 02/03/2008, -4/+9No one uses IE, only retards who barely know how to download firefox or opera.
      • MioTheGreat, on 02/03/2008, -4/+4Yeah, because with protected mode and a nicer UI, who would want to use IE7?
        • ElBeh, on 02/03/2008, -3/+3Idiot who don't realize it's one of the worst free browsers around. =D
        • Wartz, on 02/03/2008, -6/+4IE 7 on vista is an excellent browser. It runs quickly and its very safe. So STFU when all you know is FUD.
          • voyvf, on 02/03/2008, -3/+2Do you have any idea how simple it is to write HTML that will crash both IE6 and IE7? It's easy to avoid, yes, but it's so much more fun not to.

            Enjoy your access violations.
    • Edan25, on 02/03/2008, -1/+1So very true.
    • skyshock1, on 02/03/2008, -0/+9Actually Yahoo Mail does have a larger userbase than Gmail. Mainly due to Yahoo Mail having been available for so long
    • smackhero, on 02/03/2008, -0/+3only? you're describing a heck of a lot of people to be using the word "only."

      usually you can convert sensible users to drop IE and Live Mail/Yahoo Mail by presenting the benefits of switching to Google services, but most users just use what's immediately available and familiar to them. and there are a lot of novice users who aren't sensible and incredibly adverse to change.
  • bent3d, on 02/03/2008, -7/+14Everyone knows Microsoft sucks and they'll ***** up Yahoo, like they ***** up everything...Here's an idea Bill, why don't you spend some of that 45 billion fixing windows!
    • LightSpeed4, on 02/03/2008, -4/+4right, because bill is still ceo, and everyone at microsoft switches over to the internet search division when they acquire yahoo.
      You must know a lot about how a business works.
    • djepik, on 02/03/2008, -0/+7For a split second I definitely thought you meant that Bill should invest in a glass repair business!
  • hutectro, on 02/03/2008, -5/+2Google comes then Goggle goes their is new search engine coming
    called -------Spider
  • CrudeDarkness, on 02/03/2008, -3/+5they said the same thing about the PS3.
  • subarusqueege, on 02/03/2008, -4/+4
    I use dogpile.com
    • TRENT310, on 02/03/2008, -0/+4Wow, I'm surprised it still exists.
    • HydrogenOxide, on 02/04/2008, -0/+1I bet google will go metasearch after it goes 700mhz
  • jsffive, on 02/03/2008, -2/+5I use google because the main page is simple. It takes no time to load.

    Really. Go to yahoo right now, and you get a whole bunch of stuff that you don't need. I don't need news when I'm trying to search for something. But that's what yahoo does, they make my computer waste clock pulses downloading a bunch of crap that I don't need, and didn't ask for.

    Google is simple, and it's as simple as that.
  • Morte42, on 02/03/2008, -3/+2According to Alexa, in the past year, Google has had more page hits than Yahoo for a grand total of two weeks. Which means for the other 50, Yahoo has outdone Google. Now obviously that doesn't account for searches done, but when Yahoo is getting more advertising dollars than Google because of page hits, I can't exactly consider that "market dominance."
    • Afrochu, on 02/03/2008, -2/+4That is because only idiots install Alexa's spyware toolbar, and the same idiots use Yahoo.
      • ElBeh, on 02/03/2008, -0/+0The Alexa Page rank FF addon is quite good.
    • ElBeh, on 02/03/2008, -3/+0Yahoo has sports news, and the Superbowl is approaching. That just gives them the edge for more hits. Google will be back at number one in no time.
    • Pixelpaws, on 02/03/2008, -1/+1That's because Yahoo has a lot of crappy services, while Google just focuses on useful information. If you have to click several times to see what you want, yes, you're going to generate more pageviews. With Google, I usually need just two: home page, then the first page of search results.
      • DarkShroud, on 02/04/2008, -0/+1Flicker is not crappy. Nor is yahoo messenger.
  • falafelkiosken, on 02/03/2008, -0/+1the friggin video player uses 70% of my cpus
  • MarsSentinel, on 02/03/2008, -0/+3It is not going to be about which search provides the most relevant results. It is going to be about which search filters out the least of what you are looking for. Both MS and Google filter out stuff they or their masters dont want you to see.
  • guyatlaptop, on 02/03/2008, -2/+1I think that there is more to this than ad revenue and search domination. It's about making other companies look bad and microsoft look great. This is done by introducing non standard proprietary extensions into yahoo so when all other browsers display the pages "incorrectly", this makes IE (Microsoft) look good and every other browser (their rivals) look bad.
    • Lutremi, on 02/03/2008, -0/+1...no, that makes whoever (re)designed the Yahoo page or engine stupid. Do you seriously think people will shun Mozilla because Firefox can't display it correctly?
  • sonoran, on 02/03/2008, -3/+2I think Google will end up with a lot of Yahoo by default. True they can't buy Yahoo because the regulators won't allow it, but they can make offers to Yahoo's engineers. A lot of them will jump ship rather than work for MS. My guess is that Google gets a lot of those folks.
  • katorga, on 02/03/2008, -5/+0Using MS products is like having your mother pick out your clothes everyday. They are just incapable of having any "cool".
    • vorjay, on 02/03/2008, -0/+3All my 20 something year old friends and my 14 year old brother seems to think xbox360/xbox live is pretty cool. I think you have confused pretentious and whats in vogue with cool. If Microsoft/Yahoo built a "better" mouse trap I would use it over google, but I could careless if it was "cool" or not.
  • LowRentDiggs, on 02/03/2008, -2/+4Microsoft has more cash than most countries and they still put out mediocre products. That's why they have no chance of overtaking Google, they're concerned only with market domination/preservation and have no interest in innovation anymore.
  • BingoPower, on 02/03/2008, -2/+3And if you're *really* bored... go to images.google.com, turn safe filtering "off", and type in a single-word country-origin, e.g: "Brazillian" or "Japanese". Note how many pages before porn arrives.
  • jizzypop, on 02/03/2008, -3/+4but, but, live.com has birds eye view maps, suck that google. (i like that better than street view)
  • REM333, on 02/03/2008, -0/+5Anyone noticed the tiny AOL fish in the lower left corner?
  • CryptiniteDemon, on 02/03/2008, -2/+0associate teaching professor in information technology and computer science at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, PA

    That's an aside to describe someone in a sentence. A bitch much when that's longer than the rest of the sentence aye?
  • zandernat, on 02/03/2008, -1/+4What's not to love? They monitor your searches and collaborate with the Chinese to enforce censorship in that country.
  • mohabias, on 02/03/2008, -2/+2haha, little aol
  • knowmonger, on 02/03/2008, -4/+1The news is on "MSN"BC. Irony !!! ^_^
  • moonchild21, on 02/03/2008, -2/+0Google is king!
  • weycrest, on 02/03/2008, -3/+0Microsoft + Yahoo have some way to catch up in the internet advertising business. I use Google Adwords as well as Adcenter and Yahoo Search Engine Marketing (formerly Overture) and Google's interface is light years ahead. They make it so simple to get an advert on line. However there are some cheaper clicks to be had on Yahoo and MSN. Strange because Overture had a head start over Google too. Google really need some competition, it will be years before Yahoo/Microsoft provide it.
  • AppleMacMan, on 02/03/2008, -3/+0The REAL story here that isn't being told is how Google's relationship with Apple and it's support for the Macintosh secretly keeps Google way ahead of the competition.
  • gamemaker, on 02/03/2008, -0/+6I disagree with this article. Google as a search engine is usable but hardly the pinnacle of what we should have available, in part because they limit functionality because they make millions off the way PageRank works. Why can't I search only hobby sites? Or just sales sites (exclusde reviews and hobbyists) if I want to buy a product? Why can't I sort my search results, say, in the order of most recently modified pages? All these things are functional internally in Google's technology but they choose not to provide better searching because it would break PageRank which is their cash cow.

    Internet searching is WIDE open for competition. Whoever makes a better google will make a fortune.
    • JoeRW, on 02/04/2008, -0/+2Search by recent would be fantastic, it boggles my mind why no one has provided this behavior yet. Nothing worse than searching for information on a software product and getting back 2001 reviews.
  • LedZeppelin416, on 02/03/2008, -3/+1Google has remained king and will never give the throne to anyone else.
    • DarkShroud, on 02/04/2008, -0/+2Yes, but someone can just walk up and take with a better service.
  • PhantomTrain, on 02/03/2008, -0/+4I like Yahoo's online offerings more than I do Google's.
    But Google search is simple and clean, and I prefer that over Yahoo. MSN's newly remodeled search page isn't that bad though.
  • myass666mlong, on 02/03/2008, -1/+0lmao cartoon totally rox
    i love google !!
  • NanoStuff, on 02/04/2008, -1/+1Mixing piss with mud doesn't make gravy.
  • Bicep, on 02/04/2008, -0/+2Google will stay on top because Google is all about empowering users through technology (rather than for pure restriction and profit):
    For instance, consider Google's first corporate philosophy (see http://tinyurl.com/6qztb):
    1. Focus on the user and all else will follow.
    From its inception, Google has focused on providing the best user experience possible. While many companies claim to put their customers first, few are able to resist the temptation to make small sacrifices to increase shareholder value. Google has steadfastly refused to make any change that does not offer a benefit to the users who come to the site.

    Also, Google uses Linux and Open Source to advance itself into the future. This model will continue to be successful for any company that is willing to commit to it.
  • peterinjapan, on 02/04/2008, -0/+1So, Microsoft is going to spend ALL of their cash to do this thing? Hahaha! I am ***so*** glad I sold all my shares two months ago.
  • LinuxGalore, on 02/04/2008, -0/+1When two narrow minded fools get together it doesnt mean the results they produce are smarter.
  • GeneralKickass, on 02/04/2008, -0/+1I would much rather have that fish picture in the preview window than yahoo's stock prices.
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