Google makes me nervous. They have no privacy policy listed. They're a private company. As much as the open-source community loves them (which I don't understand as they're really not different in developing proprietary stuff like MS) they're not all that great.

I mean, the searching is good, but that's to be expected. Compared to growing up with Altavista, Webcrawler and Northern Lights, Google was a relief.

But you have to understand they have no interests besides their own in the way they conduct business. They're unnecessarily herofied (is that even a word?) just like MS is unnecessarily vilified. It's annoying, to say the least.

In any case, MS is now on track to try to "compete" with Google. Unfortunately I think MS will fail. They're not much of a web company; they write software for PCs. Every internet venture they've started ... sucks.

The only company that I think could get that would be better would be Yahoo! They have a much better understanding ... but they're lack of real software development is going to hinder them.

If Yahoo and MS created a partnership where MS put its weight and expertise .. and Yahoo put in its web experience ...

It might work.

But nah. Probably not. Maybe I should make a search engine. Har har.