Well, Microsoft itīs like the devil in the multinational business... so I donīt know if Google could some day act so bad and get the same reputation, but if they donīt stop growing, things could turn black. You know, power corrupts.

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I think you are absolutely right, the reason for it is that we see that Microsoft is now a days has started to follow the footsteps of Google Inc.
They have already made changes in the search abilities and are now jumping into adverstisement too...thorugh MSN ADCENTER. They are already trying to make LIVE.Com as their premier online service and no doubt they are putting lots of efforts in it.

Well, now the concept of WEB 2.0 is also becoming a threat to the local desktop, so most likely it will Microsoft who will need to change the way it works.

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Sounds like you don't really understand Google's business model then. Taken from here:

 

 

 

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Microsoft and Google are in different zones of buisness. Microsoft sells Operating Systems which is on about 95% of peoples computers. Now imagine if google does get bigger. Microsoft would still have an advantage. They provide the operating system. They could easily put a blow to google's applictations by changing the operating system a little bit and making there applications malfunction. And even then Apple would not be able to help very much as google's main programming is in microsoft's windows language. I actually see microsoft and google partnering in a way. If that happened Microsoft would get bigger and more powerful, but google would make a killing. If they partnered Microsoft could include some dumbed down applications from google in there OS and people would use and upgrade to a costly but better version. And Microsoft would benifit by putting there products on the worlds biggest internet solution. But, this is just my opinion and if you dont agree. Then you dont agree. Feel free to comment and say my idea is stupid or a positive comment.

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they could. its very unlikely though possible. right now, google is sticking to the internet. they aren't doing anything that doesn't have to do with the internet. microsoft does everything. they have probably the most popular OS and web browser. they also own msn.com. google needs to make other things. then with lots of work, they might become as popular as microsoft.

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Google is finaly going to put off microsoft from the monopoly position they owned before, Google will attack Microsoft by taking over the internet, Microsoft will have a pretty small marketshare after that because the internet is the future. Microsoft sticked to much to their old concept.

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I don't think Google is trying to become microsoft in anyway. Google support open sources softwares as we can see it promoting firefox browsers and other software which it releases freely. And I don't think Google will take over the domain where microsoft is already well established nor Microsoft can encroach to Google domain where google is a leader once again.

I personally think that Google will continue to dominate where it is already a leader and will try to assert its leadership for a long long time to come. While Microsoft too will try its best to protect its domain.

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Well my view is that, no wonder google is the best search engine ever but Microsoft is Microsoft. What has google done in all these years? Google was just any other search engine. The only thing that kept them ahead is the their website is extremely fast and reason being that they havent put crap on their website like yahoo has. Yahoo! was no wonder the best some years before, but thing have changed because yahoo is slow and they no more just search engine company. I remmember is used to know yahoo as a search engine. And if i share my personal experience, the only reason why i dont use yahoo search engine any more is that the website is real slow and they have a lot of unwanted stuff on their homepage in addition to seach engine.
All i wanna say is that Google has Changed nothing. It is just an ordinary search engine who has GROWN in real sense. Now there is no information on the internet which is not available on google and since google progressed in their search engine technology they came up with new services like gmail, picasa, Google Earth etc. But are they up with anything new??
Gmail is 2GB and fast. If you search on the net, you can find some email providers providing more than 10GB of storage.
If we take Google earth, there are other softwares also similar to it. One is from NASA, well i dont remmember the name correctly.
This shows that google is not up with something new. They have all the services.
Now lets take Microsoft.
We all know that if Microsoft would have focused on the Internet they would have gone far ahead of Google. I think they are the best. Do you think google can really make something like Windows XP or VISTA which have changed the whole world. More than 90% of this world uses Microsoft Operating Systems. Windows is simply the best (except in the case where you wanna do some hacking and all). Though Linux is more Powerfull but it aint as easy to use. Microsoft has changed the dimension of Operating Systems. They have changed something like DOS to WINDOWS and dont you people remmember, they were the first company to provide free email called HOTMAIL. And in those days Microsoft was thought of somethin like we think of Google Today. But things change with time. Microsoft didnt focus only on Internet. They focused in software technology and dominated it. They have the best products and technology around.

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I think that Google may become as big as Microsoft, but even if they don't there forcing Microsoft to come up with better applications faster to keep up with the pace that Google is producing them. Either way its good for us.

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Well, google need not be the new microsoft in the first place. It has potential to get itself on to a differnet plane.. Microsoft is obsessed with Operating Systems and other softwares while google deals with internet. But , i read microsoft might change gears ,and might shift to internet technologies pretty soon. Saying that , there have also been rumours that google is planning to develop/has been developing, an operating system of late. Inspite of these two pretty good with what they are right now, i dont see any big rivalry between these two companies. atleast until now..

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