Google Maps!!!!!

[wacki]

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Google rocks!

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Yes, it does. What I find kind of shocking is that I started the cyborg eyeball thread before I started the Google Maps thread and this thread has 200 views while the cyborg thread only has 20+. From this, we can safely say google is better than cyborg eyeballs. But the real question is, is google better than puppies?

[lapoker17]

They're already Microsoft.

Their only revenue (90% or so) comes from a stolen business model (Adwords, which they "borrowed" from Overture).

They already are the man.

[wacki]

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Their only revenue (90% or so) comes from a stolen business model (Adwords, which they "borrowed" from Overture).

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Do you have any links? Couldn't find anything with Yahoo. Even if it's true, Google still doesn't come close Microsoft. They aren't even in the same league really.

[stabn]

But you have heard of the new msn search, right? :P.

[shant]

I think A9's Yellow Pages map is a lot cooler than this.

http://a9.com/-/company/YellowPages.jsp

Also:

http://us.map24.com

[lapoker17]

I meant only in the sense that they're profiting solely from the ideas of others. Their business model was, they didn't have a business model, until they "discovered" pay per click search (all those little text ads you see). Now they're a media darling. It's just kind of lame.

[lapoker17]

Yeah - A9 will probably take over. Or MSN search - In a year or so.

[wacki]

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Yeah - A9 will probably take over. Or MSN search - In a year or so.

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Microsoft is 30 times larger than google yet google has more Ph.D.'s. I doubt MSN is going to take over anytime soon. A9 is pretty cool and I will have to check it out more. But I would not underestimate the people at google. As long as their CEO's don't screw everything up I don't see how they won't stay on top quality wise.

[wacki]

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I meant only in the sense that they're profiting solely from the ideas of others. Their business model was, they didn't have a business model, until they "discovered" pay per click search (all those little text ads you see). Now they're a media darling. It's just kind of lame.

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So they didn't actualy "steal" anything? How is that underhanded?

And you comparing them to Microsoft? A company that has an illegal monopoly and charges people an arm and a leg for a crappy product? A company that is known for:

# Bloat code
# Backward incompatibility
# Perpetual upgrading (another way to suck out money)
# Vaporware
# Predatory practices
# Bundling of inferior products
# Bugs, bugs, and more bugs
# Insecurity
# Closed "standards"
# Mutilation of existing standards
# Lack of innovation
# Hostile treatment of customers via anti-counterfit measures

Ugh, just do a google search. There is plenty more.

[lapoker17]

Not underhanded, just unimaginative.

Meh, Microsoft bashing is so passe. Sort of like Google ass kissing.