The race for Internet supremacy is getting more intense by the day. Internet giants, especially Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft, are fee-fie-foe-fumming and smelling blood everywhere as they retool their strategies for complete omnipresence. But they've also decided not to go it alone as they form supergiant alliances.
agrees to install Google software on millions of computers. New Dell systems will come preloaded with Google's desktop search software, and possibly in the future with Google's browser buddy Mozilla Firefox. Dell users will also be directed to a webpage co-branded by Dell and Google.
The Associated Press reports that Dell will also reserve some space for the search engine in a side panel of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6. Interestingly, the arrangement, though rumored for months, comes very soon after Google failed to persuade the US Department of Justice to dumped Google, which had been supplying the underlying technology for Amazon's A9.com search engine and Alexa search services, for MSN Search and Windows Live Search.
Mr. Softy heads off Google and MIT: Microsoft didn't like it one bit that MIT chose open source operating system Linux to run on laptop computers for shipment to developing nations in the ambitious (and partly Google sponsored) One Laptop Per Child Program. Gates undercut it first by suggesting that cell phones were a better option with Windows CE, but just this week Microsoft announced a ad partnership with #2 search engine Yahoo!. It's not just a partnership, but an all-out assault, as the giants conspire to take market share from Google by increasing eBay listings in organic and sponsored search results on Yahoo!, by powering Yahoo! Wallet with PayPal, by co-branding an eBay Toolbar, by adding click-to-call advertising through Yahoo! Messenger and eBay-owned Skype, and by Yahoo! serving up ads on eBay's site.
What's About To Happen
MSN jilted again?: The Financial Times reported that social-networking juggernaut MySpace.com boasts that MSN Spaces became the most widely used blogging service worldwide with some 100 million unique visitors, the company informs the public of its intention to launch a more robust social networking service called Windows Live Spaces to capitalize on the meme.
The Fabled GEMAYA On The Horizon?
Fortune.com writer David Kirkpatrick may indeed have set himself up as a prophet. In October of 2005, Kirkpatrick coined the term here.")
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