A one Mr. Robert McLaws wants to make sure you know what Google is really all about. Mr. McLaws it seems works for Microsoft? Maybe not? Here on a Microsoft page he's listed as a Community MVP, whatever that is, and as President of Interscape Technologies, Inc. But go to Interscape Technologies, Inc. here and it seems like a bunch of dead error pages. I must be too dim to know what's going on. Oh wait, here he is on Zoom Info. And oh, here he is in Networld World getting irate at someone who did a negative cost analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection. Gosh, this guy is everywhere.  Nevertheless, in the rant linked just below in the next paragraph, he writes: Google will not be satisfied until they can track what you do from the second you wake up in the morning until you go to bed…

What? Google isn't interested in what I do in bed? Shame on them. Shame on me!

Google is an ad company, he says. Google is not a search company, he continues. Google is not a software company, either, he avers.  Here's a link, sort of, to Mr. McLaws' post. Mr. McLaws does not offer a permalink or a trackback function. Hey, it's Microsoft? Maybe? Maybe not? He offers seven so-called "Share this post" functions but the predominance of them give you ways to elevate his viewpoint elsewhere. None of them let me take you directly to what he wrote. You may have to scroll down. The title of his imaginative post is "Google is not a search company." Microsoft is a search company at least in one respect because in a way you clearly have to search hard for Mr. McLaws' anti-Google assertions.

But while we're on the subject of what Google isn't… Google is not a monopoly. Nor is Google a stock becalmed. Nor has Google been without an original good new idea for years. Google's CEO reportedly hasn't thrown chairs across a room, used the "f" bomb in reference to Microsoft, or otherwise made a fool of himself in public like some other CEOs I might name.

Microsoft is Digital Equipment Corporation, circa 2007.  CEO Steve Ballmer is Ken Olsen with less hair.

I think what bothers Mr. McLaws the most is that Mircosoft is not Google. Or, he's not Larry Page or Sergey Brin?

Whoever he is, whatever he does, I think someone should moderate QuickDraw McLaws' posts.

Google, the un-search engine company tells me the picture above is of Mr. McLaws. But what's Google know? That could be anybody.

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