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Google Muscles Into Microsoft's Turf

Posted by michael on from the many-have-tried,-none-succeeded dept.

gollum123 copies and pastes: "AP has a story on how as Google rapidly rolls out new products, the company best known for its wildly popular search engine is muscling into the software giant's turf, including its stronghold: the computer desktop."

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  1. Microsoft shouldn't worry... by thewonderllama.com · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...they can rely on the quality of their products and their customers' loyalty.
    They shouldn't have any problem competing on a level playing field.
    /painfully straight face ~BS

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  2. Re:Google by Teknorat · · Score: 5, Funny

    I used to wander but then my legs got tired so I sat down and began wondering.

  3. Hyperoffice.com by madaxe42 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wonder how long it'll be before google snap up HyperOffice. They're based around the apps the guys who made WebOS made, and, to tell the truth, their products are pretty good, it just seems a shame that no-one uses them.

    I'd make a bet that google will buy them out, and ruthlessly remarket, rape, and pillage their software.

  4. Ironic .... by Gopal.V · · Score: 5, Informative

    Am I the only one who finds it ironic to read about Google's World Domination plans on Yahoo news ? :)

    Google Search - ?
    Gmail - Hotmail
    Desktop Search - ?

    That's how the tally stands for Google ... I won't waste my time explaining what MS has that Google doesn't :)

    But I gotta love http://www.google.com/firefox :)

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  5. Microsoft, here's a tip by oexeo · · Score: 5, Insightful
    From article: Microsoft launched an Internet browser toolbar that blocks pop-up ads and enables search, years after Google had created its own.

    Get a clue Microsoft! The Google Toolbar supplements basic lack of features in IE (such as auto-complete, search box, and pop blocker). When it's your product, you don't need to add a toolbar extension, you just add the features to to the goddamn browser itself!

  6. MS Search isn't hard to beat by Fr05t · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A few weeks ago I was looking for a document on my company's very large file server. In fact it was a document with notes on a completitors product. So I did a document containing "company name" search. To my surprise it seemed almost ever document in our marketing department and sales departments had mentioned this company in like every second document.

    Several hours later I have a very unhappy looking network admin show up at my office curious about why I have so many documents open. Apparently S&M were trying to open some docs and they were locked by me. So I close the 5 documents I had open and give him the ok. He comes back 5 minutes later. 1500 documents were "locked" for my account. MS's search told had opened, and locked every document it listed in the find window and wouldn't release them until I had shutdown my PC.

    Now the moral of the story is google isnt going to need to do a lot with a desktop search tool to impress me. Maybe I just ask too much of MS :P

  7. Sensationalist? by ggeezz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The article makes a bold statement that it doesn't really back up. While Google does have the largest market share in web search and will be taking some of the share of desktop search soon, that's a long way from taking over the desktop. And an even farther stretch from making Microsoft's OS obsolete.

  8. Deja Vu by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not so long ago, a small technology company made a software that made a specific document format ubiquitous. Technophile pundits hailed it as the end of the Microsoft monopoly. Not long after, a software giant followed up with a software platform that would make programs run on every operating system, and pundits predicted an end to the Windows era. These pundits of course, continued without qualms about their use of Microsoft software, and nobody questioned why anybody would use anything else.

    Fast forward a few years. Microsoft continues to reign supreme. A fad operating system now plays contender, and pundits hail it to take over Windows one day. Nonetheless, everybody, including these pundits, continues to use Microsoft products without qualms. And this has been the status quo for more than 6~7 years, without Microsoft domination subsiding even a wee bit.

    Wake me up when the pundits themselves start to migrate away from Microsoft products.

  9. Re:At least... by EkkiEkkiShiwaddle · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Google less evil than MS? Really?

    Personally, I do not consider Google nor Microsoft evil (there goes my Slashdot image), I merely consider them companies trying to get rich each in its own way. Nevertheless, it seems to be the trend nowadays, Google is your friend and more of the same nonsens.

    In the long run, I'm more afraid of a "oh, it's from Google so it's OK" mentality than the old "it's Microsoft so it must be evil" one. There is such a thing as trusting something or someone too much...

    I say trust nobody - it's safer that way.