Are we beginning to see Google over the hill and quickly sliding to oblivion?
Strictly personal observations but Google's desktop search sucked for me -- just wouldn't install correctly and the time I did have it installed was not all the useful(not to mention the recently discovered security hole). MSN's Desktop Suite with built desktop search and host of other features installed and worked fine (well its popup blocker seems a little aggressive, the form fill in stuff is not that great but I never really like those kind of features anyway).
MSN Spaces seems like a lot more useful blogging tool for the masses than Blogger.
And to top it off -- I get the feeling that someone in the Adwords chain has been cheating and Google seem somewhat nonchalant about it ( this I think threatens the whole Google business model and certainly rips their credo of "Do no evil").