Why Google has blown past Microsoft as tech’s second most valuable firm

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http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/C2IekU2uyiMcDQbK4LIyng--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_US/News/BGR_News/google-ceo-larry-page.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/why-google-blown-past-microsoft-tech-second-most-182552710.html)Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s early critique of Android was that he didn’t understand how Google was going to make money from giving away software for other manufacturers to use. What he didn’t understand was that Google isn’t a software company so much as it’s an advertising platform company: The software it produces is just a means to draw in users and rake in advertising dollars. And now a new research note from Morgan Stanley shows us that Google is poised to become bigger, even now that it’s blown past Microsoft to become the tech industry’s second most valuable company. Morgan Stanley projects that Google will actually add one percentage point to its total share of the global advertising market over



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