On Aug 12, 7:32 am, "Phil Da Lick!"
<phil_the_l...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> nessuno wrote:
> > On Aug 12, 5:30 am, "Phil Da Lick!"
> > <phil_the_l...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> >>> After takin' a swig o' grog, Attila belched out
> >>> this bit o' wisdom:
> >>>> "Martin McNulty of search marketing specialist Trafficbroker said the
> >>>> upgrade threatened to put Microsoft's new engine, Bing, 'in the shade'.
> >>>> 'Google have let Caffeine quietly slip out. It talked about vertical
> >>>> specific searches while quietly doubling the speed and starts introducing
> >>>> real-time results and news feeds,'" he said.
> >>>> "Bing was launched with a massive media budget."
> >>>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8195739.stm
> >>> I always get a chuckle seeing the Bing ads on teevee... Google got popular
> >>> without that hype.
> >> MS keep making the same mistake over and over again. The company is
> >> essentially being run by accountants and lawyers. The goal is to make a
> >> profitable and market share grabbing search. Google's focus is to make a
> >> great search. To a casual observer these two approaches may seem
> >> identical but they're not - manifested amongst other things by MS's "in
> >> your face" attitude in the media and Google's casual more laid back
> >> approach.
>
> > That's the basic reason why Microsoft is so poor in real innovation.
> > It's hard to think of any significant piece of innovation that came
> > from Microsoft. Certainly modern search technology came from google,
> > and Microsoft's been trying to catch up ever since. But there are
> > many other examples (the GUI, the web browser, etc).
>
> Yeah but apart from the technology MS is spending $millions telling us
> they're cool whereas google just act cool and provide cool stuff.
>
> I had to laugh when the "I'm a PC" ads were on recently featuring lots
> of "cool" people who wanna be "just like BG" and lo and behold there he
> is - in the flesh and sweatered up - the world's biggest nerd. Whoever
> dreamt that shit up needs firing - quickly.
You know the first of those ads where Bill Gates himself appeared?
There were some really funny variations on them (not favorable to Bill
BTW) on Youtube.
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