Politics isn't EVERYTHING, you know. I eat Ben and Jerry's because I like the ice cream. I use Google because it's an awesome search engine.
Walter Mossberg is a failure as a person and a columnist. He has no more technological knowledge than my dad (which isn't considerably bad, but not quite enough to understand the cutting edge).
I'd be very, VERY surprised if Microsoft took down Google. Heck, I'd be very surprised if they gave them anything of a fight. M$ won the OS war because they were first and best to market. No matter what innovation they have in their new search engine (WinFS was pretty impressive, though - then it got pulled from Longhorn - blech), Google's already established in the market.
Google will win, and M$'s search engine will have disappeared in a year and folded within three, and you can quote me on that.
"I'd be very, VERY surprised if Microsoft took down Google. Heck, I'd be very surprised if they gave them anything of a fight. M$ won the OS war because they were first and best to market. No matter what innovation they have in their new search engine (WinFS was pretty impressive, though - then it got pulled from Longhorn - blech), Google's already established in the market."
Need I say more to respond to this than "Netscape"?