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tl;dr: Microsoft has tons of money, so they could just buy the search market out from under Google. Has that ever worked? Wouldn't they just be catching up the
by jey 17y ago
tl;dr: Microsoft has tons of money, so they could just buy the search market out from under Google.
Has that ever worked? Wouldn't they just be catching up then? Playing catch up is very backward looking -- not innovative and future oriented.
- ecq 17y agoYahoo.
- junklight 17y agoThe article also includes the bizarre suggestion that Google would react to all this by making their services chrome only - rather than doing the thing they are way better than Microsoft at - innovation. I am sure in this battle of the behemoth a round or two can be won with money - especially since their are other heavy weight players - Apple, Amazon etc. circling and strategic plays are always going to be happening - but Microsoft have had three goes at getting to where Google are now and being in second place in the search wars would surely motivate Google to stop innovating with passing nonsense like Wave and the like and put all their best brains back on search.