Anolonda - 8:54 pm on Jan 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

Repeat after me. Competition is good. Microsoft, or anyone for that matter, wanting to compete in the search engine industry is a good thing.

YES! I couldn't agree more.

It is interesting to me that so many Gates-haters despise Microsoft because of it's monopoly on the OS, yet will defend Google's monopoly in Search as fabulous and revolutionary. Why? What's the difference in the two? Google has 80% or so of the SE market, their algo stinks to high heaven, and post-IPO they care nothing for the web community that made it great.

There are a dozen search engines out there that are 10 times better than Google but can't compete. At least Gates will keep'em honest by continuing to compete.