__/ [Jesse F. Hughes] on Sunday 06 November 2005 12:51 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Other Microsoft initiatives that should be attributed to Google:
>>
>> - Interactive maps
>>
>> - Backlinks-based Web search
>>
>> - Personalised pages / portaldom / minimalist light-weight pages
>
> Are you *sure* these should be attributed to Google?
No, but I was hoping that at least /some/ of Google's influence on its
competition would become prominent.
> "Portaldom"? If you means internet portals like, say, Yahoo, they
> predate Google, no?
I thought about Yahoo when I wrote this. I also thought about google.com/im
and start.com although I am told that start.com predates all. I needed a
third point, so I picked up a very weak one. *smile*
> Interactive maps? You mean like Yahoo maps or something else?
I think that Google were the first ones to use AJAX. All the other mapping
services were far less responsive. Google accumulated many engineers that
are well-orientated in cutting-edge Web technologies and that's why they
took the lead in that domain.
Roy
--
Roy S. Schestowitz | Open the Gate$ to Hell
http://Schestowitz.com | SuSE Linux | PGP-Key: 0x74572E8E
2:40am up 3 days 22:38, 4 users, load average: 0.25, 0.40, 0.42
http://iuron.com - next generation of search paradigms
|
|
