Microsoft Wants Google…

November 2nd, 2003

Figures. Microsoft can’t create jack on their own. Thanks to Mike over at “Webspiffy”:http://www.webspiffy.com, I’ve learned of a “new reason to hate Microsoft”:http://webspiffy.com/archives/2003/11/google_merger/ even more.

If Microsoft did buy “Google”:http://www.google.com/ I’d have to force myself to stop using the web’s best search engine. I just can’t be apart of this “take over the world through mergers” strategy any longer. I’ve used Microsoft’s home grown search apps before and they’ve all sucked. The one powering their web site is less than stellar. Being a developer of Windows applications (yeah, I know… ) I happen to use their “MSDN”:http://msdn.microsoft.com/ and “Technet”:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/ searches quite a bit. I usually wind up not finding what I need and I resort to Google for the answer. Microsoft has so much content that I can see how it could be challenging to organize it correctly but buying Google is not the answer. The problem is, they aren’t buying Google to improve their own search capabilities, they’re buying them to swallow more of the web into the Gates empire.

*Sigh.*

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