Google wishes Microsoft luck on search

[rpm]

Google wishes Microsoft luck on search

Google chief executive Eric Schmidt wished rivals Microsoft and Yahoo! luck on Tuesday in competing on Web search but took aim at the software giant for what he called a "history" of trying to "restrict consumer choice".

 

[apogeeza]

"There's obviously a lot of innovation ahead of us," he said. "It looks like people will move very quickly from one search engine to another. A majority of people say they use more than one search engine.

There's that magic word again, the one MS have not yet discovered, because they buy or [-]steal[/-] borrow* all their tech. That's why Google is way ahead in front.

*(like they did from that fruit company)

 

[nelwa]

As long as the customer wins in the end, this is all fine.

I wouldn't want a search engine based on what companies think that I might want...

I want one that's basic and works...that's all

 

[Arthur]

Reminds of of Apple's infamous "Welcome, IBM. Seriously" full-page ad in the WSJ in 1982 ... those whom the gods will destroy they first drive mad, and before madness comes hubris.