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Message| (132)   While Google Inc. (GOOG) is clearly a fast
growing business with amazing potential for advertising revenue,
I believe Microsoft (MSFT) has far more long-term staying power
than Google.  To put things into perspective, let's imagine that
Microsoft never existed. The world of PC computing would be
drastically different. In fact I would even wager the growth of
the Internet would have been drastically different since
Microsoft pioneered many developments in supporting TCP/IP,
modem drivers and integrating a web browser into Windows.  Now,
if we were to hypothetically assume that Google never existed,
what would we be missing? An efficient search algorithm that
produces better results than competing search engines and a
major push into online keyword advertising.  When looking from
my perspective, should Google have a market cap ($118 billion)
roughly half that of Microsoft's ($248 billion)?  Of course the
Google bulls point to the