Napoleon would sleep in the midst of a battle for a few minutes (Well it’s not sleep – but deep meditation). This makes the body and mind fresh to be ready for fresh attacks or plan and destroy enemy by a new, cunning and effective method.

But present day CEO’s have valour, bravery and brain for what? Become big in terms of money power? They need not have the best swords, cannons, horses, arrows and infantry. They only need a pool of outsourced clever people from other countries and bargaining brainpower to be in the market or throw others out of the market. No muscle power. Only crude intelligence and political amendments.

So back to the topic – this battle is new one. This Google vs XYZ is a unique one.

Windows are good. Sure other doors will be shut ?

Yes, GMail and Mac OS X are on top of that list- but who uses them :)

And yes, IMO-Gmail still sucks – it might use AJAX effectively and Microsoft may try and use it as an example for illustrating AJAX usage – but to me, it still sucks.

Now, let’s wake up – its not a new-kid-on-the-block-anymore. Neither Google nor search is in “infancy” or anything close to soemthing like that.

The war is ON and Google is up to it.

It’s all good for Microsoft and Yahoo in a way, cos they have been shown by Google as to how much money they can make out of search – they have learnt their lessons and getting more and more serious everyday. In fact, Microsoft has always been a company that’s taken competition head-on and fight it hard. It was the OpenSource threat that made them make Windows Server better and now it’s giving a hard competition fighting the enterprise server market with Sun, IBM and Red Hat.

Google execs are in a selling spree giving up about 23million shares in total on Aug 9th. Not only this it is remarkable that not a single Google insider has bought a single share of the company in the 18 months

As of Aug. 9, they had sold almost 23 million shares. That means Google’s top executives have offloaded about $7.4 billion of stock, equal to about a third of the company’s starting market value when it sold shares at $85 each in the August 2004 IPO.

There would be nothing evil about the people who built Google into a $119 billion company parlaying their squarely gotten gains into McMansions, private jets, home cinemas, Aspen ski-lodges, or whatever else the financially well-endowed are conspicuously consuming. Diversification is divine; they deserve every cent.

Nevertheless, it is remarkable that not a single Google insider has bought a single share of the company in the 18 months since the IPO lock-ups expired, according to data compiled by Bloomberg from the Washington Service, which tracks insider sales. Philip Remek at Guzman & Co. in Coral Gables, Florida, is still the only equity analyst with a “sell’’ rating on Google; you could argue that he’s not such a lone wolf, given the behavior of the company’s owners.

Reported here

IMO – GMail sucks and the number of subscribers for GMail compared to Yahoo! and Hotmail proves me right. In fact, none of the Google creations were as successful as Google Search. They are trying hard by buying out many new ideas from startups and small firms, but as of now – its all about Search and nothing more.

And the “killing” part kicks in probably because of the “Do not evil” motto of Google :)

take care..