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		crabapple on Nov 20, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft Poaches Yahoo's Top Search Engineer; "th... no, its a strength. it means people make a very strong association with google being better at search. they earned this reputation and deserve it.

chollida1 on Nov 20, 2008 [–]

Wouldn't that also mean that if the Google brand was suddenly to fall out of favour then they would suddenly lose alot of market share.

Seems like a weakness to me.

Remember Microsoft at one time was one of the most respected brands around.

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