Comments on: New Aussie Search Gives Google Levy http://blog.ukfast.co.uk/2006/04/11/new-aussie-search-gives-google-levy/ News and views from the UK's best hosting provider Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:17:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robert Brainstorm http://blog.ukfast.co.uk/2006/04/11/new-aussie-search-gives-google-levy/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Robert Brainstorm Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:04:43 +0000 http://ukfastblog.dev.text.co.uk/?p=47#comment-25 Maybe Google's secret to success is that they buy up software developed in an academic environment, where the emphasis is on creating software that is user friendly, and research into the software that is to be created is much more expansive. Also academic software developers often have much more time to test and improve their software before release. Microsoft and others however rely on software developed in a commercial environment where the emphasis is on churning out the software as quickly and as cheaply as possible, often full of bugs and not properly tested. Often commercially produced software is substandard to academically developed software, just look at UNIX Vs Windows 95-2000. However Microsoft seem to be learning their lesson with XP and hopefully Vista will be of a similar standard. Maybe Google’s secret to success is that they buy up software developed in an academic environment, where the emphasis is on creating software that is user friendly, and research into the software that is to be created is much more expansive. Also academic software developers often have much more time to test and improve their software before release.

Microsoft and others however rely on software developed in a commercial environment where the emphasis is on churning out the software as quickly and as cheaply as possible, often full of bugs and not properly tested. Often commercially produced software is substandard to academically developed software, just look at UNIX Vs Windows 95-2000. However Microsoft seem to be learning their lesson with XP and hopefully Vista will be of a similar standard.

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