++ [ originally posted by Emma ] ++
I dont think this will end google. Maybe stop them making such a rediculous profit, but again that dosent affect any of us.
Just because microsoft add a search function into the latest IE release dosent mean people will stop using google.
It affects us because Google could get pushde out of the market. I already explained how. You mightn't use the new function, Gray won't and I won't, but the next million kids who get a computer for the first time will use it because it's there. They won't know what google
is, and they won't feel the need to switch even when they find out. You can argue that it won't work - but I'm telling you it has in the past.
Google's profit margins are what lets them give you a GB of mailbox space. If their market share slips, their advertising revenue will drop like a stone. Companies look at numbers, nothing more.