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8 Can't Miss Predictions... for 1998

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the lot-easier-that-way dept.

alphadogg-nw writes "Tired of being wrong too often, a Network World pundit applies 20-20 hindsight to this list of prognostications for 1998, which if he's right will turn out to be quite a year. Among the forecasts: The U.S. Department of Justice will go medieval on Microsoft, Compaq will buy what's left of DEC, AOL likewise Netscape, Apple will introduce something said to look like an Easter egg ... and then there's the deafening buzz about this new search engine called Google."

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  1. and Google has not innovated since by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Seriously, apart from their better straight search algorithm, almost everything is bought or copied. And the fact that they're so popular says more about the state of Internet search in general rather than their achievements.

  2. Re:Altavista by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    MROIPP is what the governments of the world are working on...

  3. Why modded Troll? by WED+Fan · · Score: -1, Troll

    Should Slashdot just redirect to digg and get it over with? How is this news?

    Why was this one modded 'troll'? As soon as I got into this abortion of an article, I realized that the person who posted it to /. had had a serious lapse of judgement, almost as bad as the Seattle Fireworks article:

    one blog commenter, claiming to have worked on prior shows, said that the shows run on Windows."
    My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

    Seriously, Taco, you're letting the quality of /. slip below Digg. Are you purposely trying to kill the brand?

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