MSN vs. GOOGLE

Jul 30, 2004 | Google, Microsoft

Microsoft is rolling out services to challenge Google. I’m underwhelmed by every single bit of it so far. Yesterday’s presentation, described in this article, summarizes some of the initiatives. MSN is going to sponsor a toolbar – presumably...

GOOGLE E-MAIL

Mar 31, 2004 | Google, mail

Google has begun testing a free webmail service named GMail. Here’s a press release from Google about the new service. Google intends to offer each user essentially unlimited storage of e-mail – 1 gigabyte per user, miles ahead of the paltry 2Mb or 4Mb...

MICROSOFT VS. GOOGLE

Nov 19, 2003 | Google, Microsoft

Microsoft has begun testing a news service to aggregate headlines from a variety of publications. The new service, MSN Newsbot, is currently targeted at the UK and three European countries during beta testing. The new service competes with Google News. It’s the...

GOOGLE TRICKS

Sep 7, 2003 | Google

You know how valuable Google is for web searches, but take a look at this page for other equally valuable Google services – among others, a price comparison service, an index of online shopping catalogs, indices of Usenet discussion forums, and a Yahoo-style Web...

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

Jul 12, 2003 | Google

Bored? Go to the Google home page, type in “weapons of mass destruction” and click on “I’m Feeling Lucky.” (The page you’ll see has risen to be the number one search result on Google for that phrase, which is why it comes up when you click on “I’m Feeling Lucky.” If...