Saturday, December 3rd, 2005, 2:40 am
Microsoft Continue to Imitate Google
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Has Google become Microsoft’s Big Brother as well as ours?
ET us assemble and review at a list of ideas where Microsoft have been claimed to imitate rather than innovate. Most of all, they appear follow Google’s footsteps, rather anxious about the looming threats .
By embarking on projects which have been recently proposed, Microsoft simply make an inimitable Google appear highly inspirational. All are implementations, which have been within their capabilities for years. These were ignored until Google initiatives surfaced or when innovative value was finally realised. It seems as though brainstorming is suppressed in Redmond. Examples:
- New classified lists service
- Satellite maps that make use of AJAX
- Online software/services, namely
live.com - Book scanning
- Search based and encouraged by backlinks
- Context-sensitive advertisement
- (Arguably) Google personalised
There must be more, but I cannot think of any at the moment.
