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Google settles Lotus -v- MS war

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Posted by Paul Mooney On 26/03/2008 | Digg This |

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1 - You are asking the wrong question: { Link }

Posted by Volker Weber At 12:15:45 On 26/03/2008 | - Website - |


2 - Mr. Weber - your fight is too broad, as it would cover things like "Your outlook sucks regarding the future of Notes", or "I hate going to class - taking notes sucks."

Mr. Mooney has it right. surPRISE!

Posted by Craig Wiseman At 13:39:51 On 26/03/2008 | - Website - |


3 - Craig, nobody says "Lotus Notes" or "Microsoft Outlook". That is vendor talk. Users refer to their stuff with one word names, especially the sucky stuff.

Posted by Volker Weber At 14:48:04 On 26/03/2008 | - Website - |


4 - Try it this way
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Also my results were totally different to yours.

Posted by Carl Tyler At 15:49:17 On 26/03/2008 | - Website - |


5 - Note that the fine print says this is not affiliated with Google, and the numbers are indeed completely bogus. The search Paul did to start this off gives wildly different results now that when he took the screenshots. Carl's example yields 1 result for "Lotus Notes sucks" whereas Google finds 2,980.

Move on, nothing to see here...

Posted by Kevin Pettitt At 19:51:37 On 26/03/2008 | - Website - |


6 - Lotus sucks can be also a positive term.
At our office we use professional Lotus products which suck good:
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Posted by Mika Heinonen At 07:43:47 On 27/03/2008 | - Website - |


7 - Couldn't resist adding a comment:

Using 20 different search phrases in Google, both positive and negative ones, revealed the following statistics:

_____________IBM____Microsoft_
negative:_____98%_________58%_
positive:_______2%_________42%_

total hits:__93,748_____303,971__

Not sure if this is representing emotions from end-users, it-professionals or my search history that Google is tracking (see: { Link }

Posted by Wouter Aukema At 10:20:42 On 27/03/2008 | - Website - |


8 - @6 Agreed. Understanding the etymology of 'sucks', I never understood why it's a bad thing. Emoticon

Posted by Craig Wiseman At 14:19:29 On 27/03/2008 | - Website - |


9 - Paul,

Isn't this merely a reflection of marketshare ? Emoticon

Posted by Peter de Haas At 07:37:08 On 01/04/2008 | - Website - |