'Google is kicking our butt'

... says a Microsoft employee:

'So now I have GMail, the Google Toolbar, the Google Deskbar, and the Google Desktop.  To search MSDN help, I use google. At home, all my computers use Google as their home page.  When I want to browse the web on my phone, I use Google Number Search.

See a trend here?

I work for Microsoft.  I own plenty of Microsoft stock.  I want Microsoft to succeed.  But right now Google is kicking our butt.  We're so far behind everyone else on these things, and Google is so far ahead of everyone else.'

(Emphasis mine.) Jaybaz thinks that, anyway, Microsoft will be able to change the picture and, in the end, be ten times better than Google on all of this -- and that those will be exciting times.

I agree: it's going to be exciting.

[Also, Gervase Markham mentions in Google Search Reveals Algorithms? that right now with Google Desktop Search it happens that Google is not only in their servers, but on your PC also. So it's probable that really soon somebody will reverse-engineer that software -- even if it's explicitly prohibited. Well, I don't think that Google is using the same algorithm or that the Desktop Search is similar to Web Search, because the latter takes in account factors like the page links and others, that are not on your PC. But anyway, somebody will dissect it and tell us about the differences.]

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Comments

[Dennis]

Yes ! I love that Gmail. It is far superior to MSN or Yahoo.

DJR

[Alvy]

I don't really like or use webmails (in general), but when I had to, GMail is the one.