http://www.cele*****y.com/9114/microsoft_offers_44_billion_to_buy_yahoo/
Usually I don't pay much attention to stuff like this but this caught my
eye.
Bill and I are good friends, even if he is part of the evil empire.
I still remember the day, an ad exec, walked into this little office,
with a million bucks in his hand, and offered those guys a million bucks
to buy into that company. And everyone was totally blown away.
He had to explain himself in the press the next day because everyone
thought he was nuts.
Everyone except a few people.
Myself I was dismayed. I was dismayed by what he said.
He said, that their are amazing demographics in them thar hills, and you
will be able to do amazing demographic research, by seeing what it is
people are searching for!
It wasn't long after that that Micro and Soft, (an appropriately named
company) came up with this idea of cookies, and a plethora of excuses to
justify their existence.
At any rate, 44 billion to buy that company is a lot of money.
You know Google has always been one of MSofts' big competitors and they
have tried all sorts of ways to get an edge on them, but they just never
clued in.
They never got it.
I tried and I tried to tell Bill why they can't get past them, but he
wouldn't listen.
Google News period.
It begins and ends there.
And MSoft's email News attempt, just does not have the easy to use web
interface, nor does it archive the news, so you can search it.
Thats it.
Thats all it is, thats all it ever was Bill.
The leaders of the industry, use Usenet. The rest are just followers
Bill.
You should know that.
And I will tell you something else.
You do anything similar and they will be there in a heartbeat.
Everyone hates Google worse than Microsoft.
I have to use a different news reader right now, because it won't let me
post.
It is right now spamming on every page, yet everyone knows that is bad.
They even have people sit there and edit your posts in real time some
times.
Well thats the thing isn't it?
There are a lot of very big players trying to manage th eflow of
information and they do that at the bottleneck, called Google.
So you can take them on Bill. You have done it before.
But will you actually get this message or again will you throw billions
of dollars away?
That is the question.
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