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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 1834167" data-attributes="member: 63">As a business, I can see what Microsoft makes.&nbsp; I trust a company that actually has something they sell.&nbsp; And sure, I can see the service Google offers, but lots of websites offer searches, and they don't make me pay for it.&nbsp; Plus, with the almost cult-like parallel of &quot;Come on and join GMail, I have an invite left&quot; (and they always have an invite left), it just makes my gut instinct alarm signals go off.I just watched an old episode of Farscape last night, in which there's this worker planet where the people are hopped up on drugs all the time.&nbsp; Every evening they say, &quot;We're going to go out and party, because tomorrow is a rest day.&quot;&nbsp; Then the next day they're out farming again.&nbsp; I feel Google works the same way.&nbsp; Google's mail service is like the pod people of the internet.And, as much as I like Queen Dopplepopolis, I can't trust an invitation to become a pod person from a doppelganger.&nbsp; *grin*</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 1834167, member: 63"] As a business, I can see what Microsoft makes. I trust a company that actually has something they sell. And sure, I can see the service Google offers, but lots of websites offer searches, and they don't make me pay for it. Plus, with the almost cult-like parallel of "Come on and join GMail, I have an invite left" (and they [i]always[/i] have an invite left), it just makes my gut instinct alarm signals go off. I just watched an old episode of Farscape last night, in which there's this worker planet where the people are hopped up on drugs all the time. Every evening they say, "We're going to go out and party, because tomorrow is a rest day." Then the next day they're out farming again. I feel Google works the same way. Google's mail service is like the pod people of the internet. And, as much as I like Queen Dopplepopolis, I can't trust an invitation to become a pod person from a doppelganger. *grin* [/QUOTE]

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