> Gilles Tran wrote:
>>
>> To make things clear: Google and Yahoo are *** advertising networks 
>> ***. This what they do for a living: sell advertising space and other 
>> marketing services. What they offer - search engines, image banks, 
>> email services, office apps etc. is just a sideshow, or to use 
>> marketroid speach, assets to be leveraged, that only exist to bring 
>> ads to your desktop.
> 
> Point taken. BUT some Google produts are free of ads and are useful so 
> your afirmation falls short here.

AFAIK, their search engine was ad-free for a long while. Ads were added 
once they already had lots of users. So they will probably do the same 
with the rest of their products.

>> Say what you want about Microsoft, it's still primarily a software 
>> company that creates and sells IT products.
> 
> Which are in many cases slower and sometimes so crappy.

Slower than what? You better not be comparing speed between Microsoft 
software and Google web application! Nothing is slower than a web 
application :)

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