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April 12, 2007
Inigo Montoya Goes to Microsoft
Vizzini: He didn't fall? Inconceivable.Inigo Montoya has apparently gone to Microsoft in the guise of search czar Steve Berkowitz. He told the Search Engine Strategies conference in New York this week that Microsoft will "earn" a top spot in Web search via technology and innovation.
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
-- The Princess Bride (1987)
No way. As I've said here many times, most search users wouldn't know better any more in search if it clobbered them in the head. Stuff just works, and they're happy and comfortable. Microsoft isn't going to innovate its way into a God algorithm for search.
So, either Berkowitz/Montoya is delusional, playing silly word games, or Microsoft is set to buy Yahoo.
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Hehe. Brilliant finish to this post!
All the bombastic MSFT flailing (I've posted my opinion that Berkowitz had no idea what he was getting into) IS more likely to get Microsoft to destroy Yahoo buy buying it.
Win-Win for you know who...