Take that! Microsoft vs. Google
This week is a great example of why I love Google (and have less-positive feelings about Microsoft). This week Microsoft released it’s LONG awaited “new search engine” (story from the BBC). In the typical Microsoft style, they admitted that they had been left behind in the search engine market, but were coming up from behind to take over and triumph. Sounds a lot like the Netscape/Internet Explorer statements from several years ago. All except for one thing… Google will not be schooled by a company with a “reactive” business style.
The major piece of evidence that Microsoft used to show that they were taking over Google’s space, was the fact that their new search engine indexes five billion pages, while Google only indexed four billion. Yesterday, however, Google quietly released an “update” to the number of pages they index… to over 8 BILLION!
I think of what Sergey Brin said in his interview with Newsweek: “I’ve seen companies obsessed with competition, say, with Microsoft, that keep looking in their rearview mirror and crash into a tree head-on because they’re so distracted,” Not Google.
I hope the gloomy feel in the MSN Search offices today will help them learn a lesson in humility and let them get used to taking second place to Google.
See article Google One-Ups Microsoft (from www.thestreet.com)