mr garry lee wants to “beat google”. he posted this article where he explains why the interneters should brainstorm an innovative strategy to beat google.

i won’t get into any interpretation or judgement of this here, but there’s a really annoing question running in my mind: why does he want that???

and that’s how i think this might be similar to microsoft’s experience. ok, google’s started in the universities‘ laboratories, not in an american garage but:
1. microsoft’s windows solved a real consumer problem didn’t require any special PC configuration and was widelly distributed
so did google when launching gmail. (that’s when i got in contact with it).

2. in time, microsoft has developed and integrated facilities and thus has “forced us” to use microsoft office, internet explorer, windows media player, etc.
so does google when launching google sitemaps, google reader, google spreadsheets, etc

3. soon enough microsoft itself was an entry barrier for any software company thinking to launch a product.
i might say so does google with any website. if it isn’t searchengine friendly than… trash it!!

4. and so the revolution begins: active it people, start deny microsoft’s good intentions and software quality (not that they’re too good but this isn’t the point now).

and here’s we are now: is this what’s going to happen to google? are we to expect a search engine revolution? should we see more and articles denying google’s supremacy and use?

thanks for the previous commenters of mine:
davidairey, graphicdesignblog, robcubbon, kucau, miLienzo.com, jez, opradu, pete dunn, wordpressguy.

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