Same as Ben & Jerry.....
I used Google extensively then read an article about ask.com. Tried it and found I got better results. Still, Google gives away some excellent software. Their desktop search feature regularly finds e-mail and other documents that I couldn't find any other way. And their picasa photo manager found photos on my hard drive that had mysteriously 'disappeared'.
I can certainly understand why MS is worried about them. If they start giving out office suites, MS is in trouble.