---
title: "Poll: What mid-90s company is Google most like?"
date: 2006-12-04
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Poll: What mid-90s company is Google most like?

John Milan’s [latest article for Read/WriteWeb](https://web.archive.org/web/20110812230408/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/changing_climates_microsoft_google.php) explores the evolving software environment, with particular focus on Microsoft and Google. The article gets us to thinking: is Google the latest manifestation of an Internet bubble, or is it really different this time?

Although comparing two different decades is a little dangerous, perhaps even silly, we can’t help but ask:

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/poll_google_90s.php))*