Is Google worth 1/15 of Microsoft? Probably, just based on the technology alone and that fact that searching and retrieval of information is becoming a more significant part of our lives.
Microsoft has acknowledged the importance of search by stepping up their own efforts both online and in the designs of Longhorn (or, at least, what they wanted the file system to be like in Longhorn).
Google raised the standards in searching and I still remember my first use of google in late 1998 and my amazement at the quality of the results. I have used them as my primary search engine since, although their acquisition of DejaNews caused a step back in quality before a couple of eventual steps forward.
To #4: My software company is better than yours! Na, na, na, na, NA! Companies other than MS can be good too. You seem to enjoy deriding MS's competitors.
This post was edited by ch on Friday, April 30, 2004 at 09:51.
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