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"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"?

MS is smart. No question about it. The only reason they haven't killed Apple is because they need them. However, when they put an MS search bar in Internet Explorer with the next release of Windows, and make the new version of IE completely incompatible with existing WWW html protocols, forcing web designers to break protocols for compatibility with the MS product, then claim that the problem is that Firefox, etc, are just incompatible browsers, they might be able to kill off Google, like they have many other companies.

To kill Google, they have to kill the browsers that have the Google search bar imbeded in them. Firefox is going to be the first target. Then Google.