If Microsoft buys google, will you find a new search engine?

[Deja Q]

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5100416.html

I kid you not, honeys.

[Redneck Socialist]

1. Shit, that sucks!

I can't bitch too much because I am running windows, but christ does Microsoft have to own everything?

[Deja Q]

5. Well, I'm running Windows inside of Linux

And I'd rather not...

Just wait until their next windows version hits the streets in 2006. I read a bit on the new OS - has potential, but it's waaaaaaay too buggy - especially the new file system. ALso, a P4 at 3.2GHz would be considered too slow to run it and the desktop GUI will make use of DirectX (uh, OpenGL is far superior...)

One day Microsoft will become MacroSlop and people will leave enmasse. That's where Linux kicks in... :D

[emulatorloo]

24. I hope you are right. . .

<rant>

You are right about OpenGL over DirectX
and Real/QuickTime are far superior to Windows Media
and the list goes on and on.

MS "standards" are always the worst, yet they keep pushing them by any means necessary until they become the Standards. It helps when you have an Anything Goes As Long As We Aren't Caught set of business ethics as MS does.

Now MS is spewing FUD about Open Source. . .Ugh. See http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20031023.html

Cringley gets it wrong because he thinks Balmer doesn't get Open Source, but Balmer is clearly engaging in FUD. (see last three paragraphs of Cringley's next column)

It just makes me sooooo mad.

</rant>

[emulatorloo]

23. Yes they do have to own everything, by any means necessary n/t

[Swede]

2. Yes

[lcordero]

3. yes

I hope that there will be something along the lines of the current google.

[CanuckAmok]

4. if they call it "Googlesoft" I'll still use it....

...because I love the word "Googlesoft".

[Booger]

7. I believe I took

some MicroGoogle that a friend brought back from a Deaqd show in the mid 80's.

I Googled for about 13 hours on it too.

[wyldwolf]

6. No...

...and I won't quit using 95, 98, and XP on my three computers or Office 2000 and XP.

[Deja Q]

17. Well there's no need for the defiant attitude!

I wasn't asking if people wanted to give up M$ products, just find a different search engine!

Ah piffle, I'm probably taking your response too seriously. World War 1 started for less reason...

[weepy_and_liberal]

8. Yes

[david_vincent]

9. This is a textbook M$ maneuver

They couldn't come up with a virtual machine to save their lives. The M$ virtual machine was a disgrace. They tried and tried, then decided to just buy a small company that had developed a good one. This was like the Pentagon admitting that it couldn't beat Portugal in a war, so it just bought them out. For a company the size of M$ and with the almost limitless resources they have to be unable to develop a halfway acceptable VM is laughable. And they've done this kind of thing over and over.
It's difficult to really understand how much cash M$ has. Clearly they've become very comfortable with the idea of covering up for their inadequacies by throwing money at their problems.
And for those of you who've brought up Linux: the new version of Xandros is due to be released at the end of November. According to the beta testers, it's so good that Windows addicts who haven't yet kicked the habit will finally be able to get on board with Linux.

[GAspnes]

10. 'embrace and extend'

I had a developer tell me this week that I shouldn't bother with Linux because MS was 'all there is'.

Microsoft has $49 billion in cash-on-hand. They could fund 6 months of the war in Iraq, for pity's sake.

I've seen MS buy up company after company, because the DOS revenue stream is such that they don't have to be good at anything but licensing and buying.

[burrowowl]

11. Yes

MS will f*#k it up

[janekat]

12. Guess I'll cut down on my Overture costs - have to use Google adwords

Overture made life easy - expensive but easy....

[NashVegas]

13. I'm Ready Regardless of Microsoft

Google was a great search engine before commercial sites and commercial "me too" lists turned up the first 20 links of just about any given query.

Example: when you are looking up a song lyric and it lists the commercial databases; half the time, they only have the song title yet no lyrics.

Then you have all the about.com pages ... iyiyiyiyiy!

[Bertha Venation]

14. If Microsoft buys Google, I'll go back to the library.

[LTR]

15. Nah, can't give up Google

But at least there's AllTheWeb and Ask Jeeves!

[xJlM]

16. What a bummer of a story

Google has been a lot of fun for a while now, but if anyone can fuck it up you know Microsoft will. And then where will we go? Dogpile? Alta Worthless? or the old standby, Yahoo? It isn't bad if you don't mind the bullshit popup ads or the lame way the search engine works.

[Loco_moco]

18. Go here...

http://www.google-watch.org

..read the articles.. very interesting... and then try out their ad-free proxy at the lower left hand side of the page... it gives you access to Google and All the Web without the Big Brother B.S.


peace;
rob

[OneBlueSky]

19. all they have to do now is buy eBay and amazon . . .

and they'll pretty much control the world . . . oh, wait . . . they ALREADY control the world . . .

[dpbrown]

20. Yes

No money for an adjudicated monopoly and competition crusher and funder of the hate-fest of Michael "Savage" Weiner.

[paradisiac]

21. I love Google

and would hate to see it get MicroSucky. :-(
Unless they change the Google APIs to XML, then I'll cheer :-)

[7th_Sephiroth]

22. i say we

start a petition, tell microsoft ot fuck off

[emulatorloo]

26. Don't worry - they will add many "helpful features" to it

Like Clippy, and many many many many other helpful features.

Not to mention the access the "Wizards" will give us all to MS approved "partners" who will get to download your personal info and sell you stuff.

Maybe they will even helpfully keep a record of all your searches as a gesture of appreciation to that Sweetheart Deal(tm) they got from Mr. Ashcroft and the Justice Dept and their big contract w Office of Homeland Security for their very insecure software.

Sounds like tinfoil time, I know, but maybe not.

[Kellanved]

25. what's the problem?

I mean Google is a worst-case privacy scenario already. I don't see a way to make it worse.
Despite: Microsoft gave me almost all their products for free. So who am I to argue... :shrug: .

[emulatorloo]

27. Microsoft Is Not To Be Trusted With Your Information(tm)

Their track record is too bad. If Google is bad and insecure now, they will only make it worse.