My Inspiration

I really have to give it to Microsoft, and the entrepreneurial spirit of Bill Gates that thrives at the tech giant, because they just refuse to give up and give in… it’s quite inspiring to me actually!

Ok, are you ready for this??? GOOGLE ACCOUNTED FOR 70.77% of all online search engine queries in the U.S. for the four weeks ending July 26 (Hitwise resource). The figure is Google’s tenth consecutive record high in monthly search share, and shows strong improvement over the 64.35 percent share it took in July of last year and 63.06 percent in January 2007.

Microsoft Getting Hammered

Microsoft’s MSN search, by contrast, has taken the worst hit over the past nineteen months. MSN accounted for just 5.36 percent of all U.S. Internet search in July, down from 8.79 percent in the same month last year and nearly half the 10.35 percent share MSN held in January, 2007.

What does this mean, you might ask? To me, it means that Microsoft refuses to give up despite being pounded in a market space they see as their future and hope!

Olympic Analogy

I strongly recommend, however, that the likes of Google does not write off the will power of Microsoft. I mean, look at the 4 x 100 mens swimming that took place the other night. Look at Jason Lezak, he is the oldest member on the team, he was the last leg of the race, and the U.S. team was clearly defeated going into his heat, and really up until the half way point of Lezak’s swim to the finish line.

And out of nowhere (if you saw it, you might be tearing up right now), Lezak found a new spirit – a hidden gear in his soul, that drove him into a supernatural state, and he not only caught up to all of the front runners, but ended up winning by a literally a fingernail ~ enough to win the Gold Medal for the US!!!! (man… that was awesome to watch – hang on, I need to wipe a tear from eye).

Anyway, let’s not count Microsoft out of the game – they might just be coming down the final stretch of the last leg of the heat!