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...your primary competitors at this point? Well, today we compete with Yahoo all the time because they are the other company that has a targeted advertising network. And Microsoft continues to claim to enter the market, but we really haven't seen them yet, they're just getting started. I'm sure eventually Microsoft will be a competitor. So it's really those three companies, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft...
...partner push comes as competition is pushing back. Microsoft is waking to the ad-revenue world, legions of Web 2.0 start-ups are dreaming up useful new tools, and Ask.com and Yahoo! are closing the gap in search. "People have been brainwashed that search can't get any better than Google," says Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone. Ask has dumped its gimmicky Jeeves icon and zoomed in on search, sensing an opening...
Credit Suisse analyst Heath Terry isn't worried about the odd billion spent on new facilities or the free lunches for which the company is famous. His concern is Bill Gates & Co. "Google knows that their biggest threat is now Microsoft," says Terry. Having dragged its feet on search while Google built an empire, Microsoft has been spending heavily on its Web index and recently partnered with Facebook to provide ads for the popular social site. "To believe that Yahoo!, Ask and Microsoft are not going to improve and take share from Google is naive," says Microsoft spokesman Adam Sohn...
...consolation, and it probably isn't, Google is not unlike Microsoft at this stage in its corporate life. In 1983, when Microsoft turned 8, it was basically a one-product company with lots of growing pains. The next two products worked out. They were called Word and Windows...
...directions to the pickup location. “The goal is really to provide a convenient and cost-effective alternative to the single-occupancy vehicle,” said Corker, who is also Project Manager of Loker Commons Planning and Program Development. While living in Seattle and working for Microsoft, Shiftan said he, like many recent college graduates, worked inconsistent hours, making it harder to set up a regular carpool. As a result, in February, he came up with the idea for GOOSE.“Erratic hours...made traditional car-pooling or ride-sharing pretty much impossible...