oldskool79 - 7:32 pm on Nov 29, 2004 (gmt 0)

Fact is that MSN is somwehat scared, with G doing some really good buisness moves (buisness moves being usually the speciality of MSN). Gmail pushed Hotmail to 250mb, but I almost never use my hotmail anymore; they only reason I keep it, is because everyone knows it. Blogger is super popular, and there seems to be a bunch of other things cooking (msn is still behind on its desktop search for ex).

IMO, Google hasn't made any great business moves. They were able to leverage the popularity of their search engine to build a large PPC network. Google's search engine became popular out of good technology and lucky timing -- not due to any brilliant business tactics.

The only new thing that Gmail has to offer is more storage than their competitors. I don't think that's going to knock anyone off their feet, especially since any email company can offer the same thing whenever they want.

G admit it in a press release that their main disatvantage against msn and Y is that they don't offer the complete service, as the other portals do. Well, its seems they are heading this way, but with a different approach, which is very good

Google's main disadvantage is their users have no reason to remail loyal to them. If a better search engine comes along, what do I lose by switching away from Google?

In the near future, MSN will have the advantage of having their search fully integrated into the operating system. Users of the next version of windows would lose a lot by switching to another search engine.