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I'd rather give up using computers than go there.
Instead of offering a superior product with a clean interface, they want to figure out how to kneecap the competition.
I would think they both overlap?
People love to gravitate to the "goodness" of Google. Uh.. they are a public company with the goal of maximizing profits. People seem to hate Microsoft because they did what their shareholders told them to do.
I love Microsoft haters. Between Microsoft and Exxon, all the evilness of greedy corporations is manifest.
Dolmance -- You would be wrong about Bill Gates. He and his company are VERY left leaning and vote democrat most of the time. But its easy to combine the Borg, The Empire with Microsoft.
Good luck.
When people see the Microsoft brand, they think money hungry greedy corporate sluts, brow beating, ruthless competition, monopoly, popular and functional, but flawed and buggy software dominance.
And BTW: 'i hate ms' is always cool.
ALWAYS.
Then integrate OpenOffice into Google Docs, make sure they are completely compatible format and feature-wise.
Finally rebrand the whole thing as Google Office, AND offier it to companies as a competitor to MS Office.
Besides software accessing proprietary APIs is on it's way out. The future is the browser and Web apps that can run on anything, because they are Web standard apps and everything is open.
Last time I checked, Google documents can't run VBA (especially vital for any spreadsheet program worth its salt).
MSFT should watch out though; GOOG has been very active on the political scene and the private sector is more and more public every day...
The current form of hunting search is so primitive, so archaic. I appreciate Google's algorithms and ranking, but it's a drop in the bucket to accurate relavancy. The question here is, is Microsoft innovating to create a superior search, or just trying and "buy" market share through marketing. Obviously, with a $100M campaign, the answer is clear. Microsoft has little confidence their product will grow organically, and therefore isn't superior. Next.
Google is the best at the way current search works. But someday, someone out there will come up with a better approach. And like Gates said at TED, we'll all look back at this and wonder how we ever got by without it.
If Microsoft wants to blow 100 million then they should at least have purchase a domain like Get-in2..com (which I'd sell for peanuts) that makes sense. Get-in2 ______ what ever rather then Bing. Hell ... Go.com makes more adsense then Bing.com
That also is the secret for getting a high perminent keyword listing in Google page one results. Forgo writing pages for any SE and write them and place content there for the keyword shopper or searcher, as a legit landing page. Try searching for any general term for "suspenders" or a term like "used step vans" or used Ice Cream trucks and you'll find my sites on all the first pages for years.. No trickery needed. I'm just too old and lazy to give $$Bill Gates a heads up anymore
"get in 2 banana cake recipe"? I think not.
Also, I thought a "subdomain" was this:
www.musclecars.get-in2.com
and NOT this:
www.get-in2.com/musclecars
?
On Microsoft... a big search problem just sitting there Facebook. $100M could create a decent Facebook search. That would be a much better use of money than advertising a Bing search engine that nobody wants.
Since Bill didn't finish college, it is now coming back to hunt him. Maybe the reason Google is successful is because its founders did finish college!
P.S
Bing Bong, sounds like cheech and chong.
Now I look like a square outside, but I still feel "punk inside."
All these wannabe hipsters with their Macs (nothing against Macs! My wife has one, I use it sometimes....) screaming how "uncool" Microsoft is, I wonder if they have any credibility.
I though the "cool" thing to do was to be on the outside? And If Mac fanboys claim Google and Mac are the future, i.e status quo, then doesn't that put MS on the outside?
So does that make me "pre-cool," 'cause soon me and my PC are gonna be in the minority?
I am sure there are a lot of ways to beat Google, but I seriously doubt MSFT will own any of them.
Thus if Microsoft has a similar or better search we will switch.
The idea of search was that people would be able to find themselves, but now advertising is being pushed into the self discovery.
In 2009 peole don't want to be pushed anymore.
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