@OMG! Ponies!: Is Google really much of an underdog though? It seems to me that they've got one of the biggest names out there, as well as a sizeable dominance in the internet.
Sure, Microsoft is a massive corporation and all but Google ain't some new up-and-comer, you know?
@Mikestan: "Curses! More money! Now I'll have to work even harder to dodge taxes! And damn! I'll have to donate even more money to a charity! ARRRRRRRRRRGH! CURSE YOU ORPHANS, FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY SHRIVELED BLACK HEART!"
@Homerjay is utterly alone.: I always perceived the internet as a sort of patient, malevolent and manipulative evil... seething and bubbling under the surface, just waiting for the right moment to set itself loose, using entities such as Google and Microsoft as pawns in a bid for control of the entire world.
But, you know... it was just a feeling.
Diane:Carol Anne - listen to me. Do NOT search for "the light." Stop browsing where you are. Turn away from it. Don't even look at the search engine.
If some nation engaged in rampant mandatory pedophilia, a company that decided it had to engage in pedophilia there to go along and get along wouldn't do that because it's a retarded analogy.
On the other hand, an information provider that relies on the fact that its home nation does not censor decides that to make more money by heading into a new market, it has to go along to get along by censoring the very info they're supposed to be providing cause by golly that's just how it's done there.
Not even to mention the whole respectability and authority of the names MS and Google. Wanna blow your nose or make a copy? Use a Kleenex or Xerox because those'll get'r'done. Wanna do a search of the information that is reliably presented to you because the provider is the world leader in search? Use Google, or Bing if MS managed to convince you to roll that way. Except if you actually want real unvarnished info on Tienanmen in Chinese that is.
@bobofish: Next thing you know, you're gonna get Obama to swear at Wen Jiabao because he has the great firewall of china up.
I'm sure that'll do awesome for America's trade deficit.
I've TRIED to use what was it? chandler? anyways it just doesn't stack up. google, wikipedia and wolfram alpha seem to be doing a pretty damn good job of telling me what i need to know. #markcuban
There's a better way for MSFT to try to kill Google. Just offer to list Google's customers for free. It worked in the borwser war and it will work here. There's no better way to destroy your competition than to offer something for nothing.
That, of course, begs the question whether or not Bing is a good search engine to begin with. If not, no one will take the free offer. #markcuban
That's an interesting concept, but I'm pretty sure you would need to pay much more than $1,000,000 to get many of the top 1000 websites to delist from Google. I mean, Yahoo, EBay, CNN, Facebook, etc. are up there. To them, that's pocket change. #markcuban
But that upfront bill that wouldn't get past Microsoft's stock holders, let alone the US government's anti-competition watchdogs.
Yes, this is exactly what anti-trust legislation was made for... a larger competitor shouldn't be able to crush smaller competitors by paying other companies not to do business with them. You want to crush your competition? Then build a better mousetrap than them. #markcuban
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Nothing pisses me off like giant global corporations trying to corner the market. That's why I root for underdogs like Google.
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Sure, Microsoft is a massive corporation and all but Google ain't some new up-and-comer, you know?
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"DO NOT GIZMODO WITHOUT MORNING COFFEE"
I think size 48 font should be big enough. However, I still feel silly and embarrassed.
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He's just a greedy greedy old man.
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#tips
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But, you know... it was just a feeling.
Diane: Carol Anne - listen to me. Do NOT search for "the light." Stop browsing where you are. Turn away from it. Don't even look at the search engine.
#tips
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I've always felt that was pretty weak tea.
If some nation engaged in rampant mandatory pedophilia, a company that decided it had to engage in pedophilia there to go along and get along wouldn't do that because it's a retarded analogy.
On the other hand, an information provider that relies on the fact that its home nation does not censor decides that to make more money by heading into a new market, it has to go along to get along by censoring the very info they're supposed to be providing cause by golly that's just how it's done there.
Not even to mention the whole respectability and authority of the names MS and Google. Wanna blow your nose or make a copy? Use a Kleenex or Xerox because those'll get'r'done. Wanna do a search of the information that is reliably presented to you because the provider is the world leader in search? Use Google, or Bing if MS managed to convince you to roll that way. Except if you actually want real unvarnished info on Tienanmen in Chinese that is.
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I'm sure that'll do awesome for America's trade deficit.
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Uh huh. #markcuban
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hear hear! #markcuban
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That, of course, begs the question whether or not Bing is a good search engine to begin with. If not, no one will take the free offer. #markcuban
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Yes, this is exactly what anti-trust legislation was made for... a larger competitor shouldn't be able to crush smaller competitors by paying other companies not to do business with them. You want to crush your competition? Then build a better mousetrap than them. #markcuban