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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (180470)	3/27/2005 9:49:35 AM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 186894

re: I'm starting to think this google desktop search which I use extensively and cannot get along without at this point, is going to be a killer app to drive PC sales. Have you installed it? try it. It's great. Just Friday I was trying to find an old sent email with outlook search, finally gave up and tried google desktop search and found it in 3 seconds. Amazing app. John

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (180470)	3/29/2005 8:28:02 AM
From: Amy J	Respond to of 186894

Jury awards Lexar $464 million Jury adds to damage award in trade secret case against Toshiba. But Lexar’s attorney, Matthew Power, decried Toshiba’s actions as “malicious,” and claimed Toshiba planned to “sustain Lexar” only long enough to take its inventions. redherring.com Lizzie, am sure everyone in startup land is glee over this ruling. Too many large companies legally harass startups. It reminds me of several legal attacks by large companies on our trademarks, of course none had merit. Some seemingly have nothing better to do than attack startups. Our tm lawyer crafted probably the kindest letters you'd ever see from a lawyer - it's classy to be nice and cooperative even when we had the upper hand. And it's effective, one guy even got a bit embarrassed by his own style and gave a super nice apology to me by phone when we reacted with consistent politeness and facts. But the style of one super large overseas company was so annoying (they asked for settlement money, what nerve), that when we entered the legal period of negotiation (forgot what this is called overseas) I didn't speak to them at all. Ignored all their attempts to talk. The time to talk is before demanding settlement money, not after. It's rude when a company asks for money before even discussing win-win solutions - the corporate lawyer's style got me angry. Anyway, they rightly guessed I was super annoyed by their attacking style and would have given the TM that threatened them to their nastiest competitor - not something I would do to a nice company. They backed down and lost any legal right to make a claim against the tm. Who says emotions are such a bad thing in business? Sometimes it can be all you have to fight some of the large ones that can be nasty. But back to the Toshiba story, they made the mistake of (sarcasm on) stealing the IP before the company went under. The legal way of getting IP on the cheap, is to get a startup dependent upon your capital funding. Give them carrots of hope with suggestive hints of an acquisition but never make a promise, tell them you'll increase the capital funding if they focus more on your company, then after they are 90% dependent upon you, pull the plug on the capital investment. Bingo, you get the IP cheap. There's this one large military company that actually does this to startups, according to a contact of mine that started a company and attended some of the board meetings where this company made some of their so-called promises. Of course, this has a way of getting back at companies and they tend to get locked out of good deals in the future because their reputation gets out there. Good firms don't play such tactics. Nonetheless, it's super foolish to get dependent upon any company, even a good company. Regards, Amy J

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (180470)	5/18/2005 8:11:24 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

RE: " Have you installed it?" Sorry I didn't answer sooner. MS does a better search for me. Am using MS search because it has the hierarchy I need for faster searches. For example, Google dumps nearly everything (except images, etc) from the web into one long list. That's not efficient for my use. Try MS search - it supports more category searches so you don't have to read your entire web cache of rejects. If I am shopping for a sleeping bag from various stores and narrowed some down, I am really not interested in researching the entire web (cache) for this again like Google forces me to do. I want the sleeping bag list that's relevant, not every dang sleeping bag in my entire web cache that are filled with rejects. That would be like shopping all over again. MS search also has preview so you don't have to waste time clicking on ten versions of the same document like you do with google. For example, I'm not interested in looking at a zillion business plans from the year 2000 that google spits out from my hard disk, but want the good plans from 2005. Google is giving me the plans from 2000, not the ones from 2005. No thanks. But I do like Google's mobile better. MS needs to step it up on the mobile, because mobile is an easy entry to rule absolutely everything. Volume rules. Google is getting there. I also like Google's main home page better. MS Search should be on www.microsoft.com , what the heck put it in the middle top, they need to get rid of the junky toolbar on the top RHS that's too elementary. No one goes to MSN to search - maybe the VP MSN thinks so but it's natural he would, put the better one on Microsoft.com. On a different note, MS needs better news (maybe MS should buy Yahoo) and step up web advertising business model (etc) - I think MS needs Yahoo's Adv CEO for this area. MS would need to annihilate Google - this is no Novell. But it is surprising MS Search is better than Google's search, given Google is a search company. Maybe black isn't fashionable anymore. But there's still the advertising/news gap that possibly Yahoo can fill. My guess is Google's team is getting spread too thin working on other ms-things. So, Google's desktop search suffers. Regards, Amy J