GoogleDec21998, originally uploaded by Nuwan Weerasinghe.

Yesterday was Google’s 8th bithday.8 years is a short period of time for any other company, but IT. Information technology is such a rapid industry that innovations are sometimes daily if not weekly. So, it’s quite understandable that 8 years is a long time. what’s more interesting is to see the growth of google from a ‘Search Provider’ to an ‘Industry Innovator’.Microsoft and Bill Gates provides ample proof to this when they accept that Google is a ‘tough competitor’ for them. Google has the right vision when their efforts are predominantly on the internet.
The platform of choice for the next two decades atleast would be the NET. There fore its quite natural for Microsoft which is also a great company, to feel the heat at the market place with it’s dominance on the ‘traditional’ desktop.

Microsoft is more or less forced to accept this new technological reality, that in the ever increasing Cyberspace little matters whether you are on Windows or Linux. In this internet age Google played a huge role in making the platform redundant. Google forced this issue to such an extent that Microsoft is now almost ‘LIVE’……………

It is an Enthralling battle between these two IT heavy weights and we are witnessing and reaping the benefits of it.

I will also post this screen shot of Google search as seen on December 1998 when it was a beta.