Google continues to dominate search and web advertising which has “bothered” Microsoft who have been trying to get out of the number 3 position in the search engine “market”. Google and Yahoo! seem to flip between 1 and 2 in the search engine space. I’m not sure about web advertising.
Now, Google is going after Microsoft’s core business which is software! Google is releasing word and excel apps and gmail, chat and calendar could be a threat to exchange which is a huge part of Microsoft’s business! The link below from Robert Scoble’s blog talks about how his new employer The Podtech network is using Gmail and Calendar! Wow. Click here to read the article post.