Picking your Google Voice # to reflect your business Digital Media Digital Marketing by InsightsDigital … Google Voice, try get one. [url]http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html[/url] You can select your own numbers and… Ballmer Won't Call Google by Name in Interview Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Techwriter10 …, for example they introduced [URL="http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html"]Google Voice[/URL] and just last week… Re: Picking your Google Voice # to reflect your business Digital Media Digital Marketing by syahrizal What is google voice... Can you explain it... Re: Ballmer Won't Call Google by Name in Interview Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by kaninelupus Didn't Gates also use this strategy in dealing with Apple? Re: Ballmer Won't Call Google by Name in Interview Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by jbennet Its probably just so they dont get sued. E.g CentOS referring to RedHat as a " Prominent North American Vendor" Re: Ballmer Won't Call Google by Name in Interview Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by kaninelupus Well I suppose we are talking about the "Litigious Nation" after all ;) Re: Ballmer Won't Call Google by Name in Interview Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Techwriter10 I don't think it's related to litigation worries. You can name your chief competitor without worrying about that. He didn't say anything that was terribly controversial. I would say it's more likely a strategy to keep their name out of the story. Of course by doing that, and me noticing, he made it part of the story, but I'm guessing that's what it… Re: Ballmer Won't Call Google by Name in Interview Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by paoconnell Not naming a competitor (meaning Google) simply reduces the number of references to the competitor on the Web and elsewhere, and reduces the likelihood of someone going to a direct competitor. Interesting though: IE 8's default search engines are Google and Yahoo, but Bing is not on the list, at least not on my PC. Of course, Google probably … Re: Ballmer Won't Call Google by Name in Interview Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by Techwriter10 I'm sure Google doesn't go out of the way to mention Bing, but I have heard Eric Schmidt talk about Microsoft and Bing, so I don't think they have the same strategy going (at least not that I've noticed). I haven't downloaded IE 8, but it's worth checking out to see if that's the default. Thanks for the comment. Ron