Keep Google free from Microsoft

By John Naughton
THE OBSERVER
Tuesday, Nov 18, 2003,Page 9

All good things come to an end, as my mother used to say. The question now is whether this applies to Google, the search engine to end all search engines.

How come? Well, Google is a private company, based in Silicon Valley. It was founded by two Stanford students, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who invented a clever set of algorithms for ranking web pages. It was a classic case of disruptive innovation -- a smart idea, embodied in computer code, which comes from nowhere and conquers the world.

For most of us, internet chronology divides into two periods, BG (before Google) and AG. Nobody who used Google ever went back to anything else. At a click, all the other search engines were dumped on the rubbish heap of history.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/edit/archives/2003/11/18/2003076328

I couldn't agree more!

The responses can generally be summed up as "Big deal," "Deal with it," and "Whatever." Typical Democrats. I thought this was the Democratic UNDERGROUND?!

Check out my up and coming anti-Microsoft site at http://www.freedomware.us/ then encourage any candidates for public office you know to make Microsoft/Linux a campaign issue!

rather than give in to the dark forces. :grr: