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Google Might Disappear in Five Years
An anonymous reader writes "Speaking to a packed auditorium at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., on May 12, Ballmer trumpeted the ripe opportunities around Microsoft's sprawling business and questioned the ability of Google to maintain its edge. Clearly alluding to Microsoft's key Internet search rival, Ballmer said: 'The hottest company right now -- the one nobody thinks can do any wrong -- may just be a one-hit wonder.' According to concept developed by Ballmer, the online search engines represent the key points of the future technology, and the leader in this domain, none other than Google, is destined to perish in less than five years. These predictions belong exclusively to Microsoft's CEO who sounds a little like Bill Gates announcing iPod's death."
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"The Windows community is slowly turning into a state of chaos, and now it boasts paranoid crackpots yearning for the Third Reich."
bollocks!!1
I might be a troll.
It was posted during the first few minutes of the story going up. ,please read the Slashdot FAQ on moderation before moderating like a total Tard.
No other post says the same thing
If Ballmer had said his prayers, he would have never lost his hair. (I predict)
Not necessarily.
There's still Apple. So, the headlines will only be cut in half. Just dupe those Apple headlines and they'll be back to where they started.
Mmh, that one is clearly impossible :)
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of killer sig, which this margin is too narrow to contain.
This Internet thing, it'll never take off.
Fine. +2 Funny, then.
> Bill Gates making announcing
Could someone figure out what language this is in, and translate it into English (or any major European language)?
Thank you.
I'm not a troll! I'm a fucking troll, that steals your underwear!
I respectfully disagree.
Ubuntu ~= LinuxOS.
Easy to use, designed for anyone, free, and only profitable on the back end of the investment. The business models are approximately the same. If someone else weren't in control of / pushing behind this particular project, Google would have started one long ago. They're helping by giving a big shove on what they consider the most important part of this project, the Firefox Browser, but I'd bet on them helping to remove barriers to Ubuntu if they begin to appear.
My little site.
I don't know.......I have a hard time believing that even the androgenous Google would go for a whore like MS Bob.
Seems like Google would go for SAL9000 - what a babe!
"None of us are as dumb as all of us." - meeting mantra