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Google the new Microsoft? No comparison
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 by admin
…at least when it comes to discussion on the web.
Google announced its OpenSocial social networking API project just 5 days ago – and now the company’s own search engine reports over 7,700,000 hits for “OpenSocial”. And it’s still alpha code!
A day earlier, Microsoft announced Project Oslo. And despite the announcement being what Gavin Clarke refers to as an experience of buzzword bingo, “Microsoft Oslo” garners just 1,400,000 hits or so.
OK so it’s not exactly scientific. But to me at least it shows just how far Google-fixation has become the psychosis du jour of the technology industry.
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Surely a better comparison would be to compare “Google OpenSocial” with “Microsoft Oslo”; that dropped the Google hits down to 3.96M. Still above Microsoft’s announcement. Having said that, since both announcements actually deal with different technologies, surely this is indicative of the relative interests in these fields rather than necessarily a Blur/Oasis popularity contest.
Surely a better comparison would be to compare “Google OpenSocial” with “Microsoft Oslo”; that dropped the Google hits down to 3.96M. Still above Microsoft’s announcement. Having said that, since both announcements actually deal with different technologies, surely this is indicative of the relative interests in these fields rather than necessarily a Blur/Oasis popularity contest.