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Microsoft COO Warns Google Away From Corp Search
Forbes is reporting on comments made by Microsoft COO Kevin Turner, concerning the corporate search business. At a company conference in Boston, Turner referred to the enterprise search business as 'our house', and warned Google to stay out. From the article: "Those people are not going to be allowed to take food off our plate, because that is what they are intending to do ... Enterprise search is our business, it's our house and Google is not going to take that business"
Wow, a company doesn't want another company taking its business.
Jesus Zonk, why did you approve this story?
I guess there'll be Microsoft guys with chairs waiting to "totally kill" Google as their servers come into a corp search environment. Or maybe MSN Corporate, Chair Throwing Edition will clobber the server itself virtually by blocking anything from *.google.gom, silently of course. /joke
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And in related news, Microsoft announced today that CorporateSearch(tm) was being dropped from Vista.
deep with the Googleplex (or whatever it is called) deep evil laughs erupt ... but change to a Nelson haha when they remeber their motto (something to do with no evil).
Enterprise Search is Microsoft's? We didn't realize that. We're sorry. We really wanted to sell Enterprise Search services. But hey, you got dibs on it, so nevermind. Didn't mean to crowd you. Please accept our apologies.
See ya later. And don't be evil.
...Google founder Larry Page in a press conference said "Google is getting out of corporate search business, Microsoft COO warned us away. We are now warning Microsoft away from the OS business"
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer upon hearing this threw a chair across his office and said "Damn ! okay, Lets get out of the OS business, Google warned us away. Send a warning out to Intel to get out of the Chip making business"
Paul Otellini, pulling Intel out of its core Processor business said "Intel is looking for other high-tech sectors to enter...After issuing appropriate warning to the current market leaders of course"
What a lame story !
Wow, indexing a drive. How cool. I wonder if anybody else has ever done that before.
evil is as evil does
Ok, this is really bad. "Google, that terrorist organization, threatens the American way of life because they threaten the very fabric of our economy, taking away the food from our sickly childrens' mouths." -- a really poor misquote. Please don't mod me down troll or flamebait. **trembles**
Then do us a favour and jump off of it....
There's a Bill Murray movie that you're forgetting.
Mods: this post is not offtopic, check the title of the film. That, and Bill Murray is NEVER offtopic. NEVER!
I'll never make that mistake again, reading the experts' opinions. - Feynman
600 pounds is a really small elephant, and not at all scary.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Actually, for local searches, I've had situations where it was easier to boot into the linux and use "grep" on my windows partition. If that doesn't suggest that something needs fixing, I don't know what does.
PS: no, this isn't a joke.
Dear Bill and Monkey-boy:
You suck at searching. We're eating your lunch. Take it like a man, or we'll slap WINE on Ubuntu and liberate your victims.
Hugs,
Google.
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
"And if a whole enterprise is a piece of 'food' for MS, where does that leave an individual?"
An after-dinner mint.
...the chair would have been enough of a warning. I guess they just didn't get the message.
We're Not Gonna Take It!
no, We Ain't Gonna Take It!
We're Not Gonna Take It Anymore!
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Their corporate search product is called Windows Genuine Advantage. :)
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