ByronM - 4:05 am on Sep 20, 2009 (gmt 0)

I never made this about google. I said i was thrilled to see Bing coming of age enough that google may have to do things in response to bing - and one of those may very well be having to define itself and market itself so people like you aren't telling me what google is but google telling me what they are straight from the horses mouth.

I'd also add that you're terribly naive if you don't think Microsoft isn't committed to Bing, Social networking, Cloud computing so on and so forth. Microsoft put 240 million into facebook for a valuation of 10 billion and extended that partnership with a bing exclusive search deal. Microsoft is also pushing facebook on Xboxlive as well as twitter. Cloud computing is important to microsoft as well with Office 10 coming to desktop and web versions as well as microsoft showcasing MANY "cloud" based systems from silverlight applications to silverlight hosting to silverlight CDN all the way to their "live essentials" and "live labs" products which enable cloud storage, cloud computing, synchronization, remote support.

i could go on and on, but i have a feeling none of this would matter and i would just be cornered to defend myself against whatever misconception there is about microsft and the public perception of google.

I simply want to hear google speak for itself one of these days and if bing keeps this growth up, by god google will be forced to play that card and sooner or later the community will see the direction google wants to be rather then the big black box it is today.