Are you using Google Apps for your Domain? When Google first introduced Google Apps, all the news sources said they were taking on Microsoft in the software business. That and Google’s venture into open office type applications fueled the rumors that Google was taking on Microsoft.

You hear so much about Google when you work online that you start to believe they could take over the world like Pinky and the Brain.

But when you really get down to it, Google is David and Microsoft is Goliath. Here is a quick true and false questionaire.

Google has more searches than MSN = True or False? True of course.

Google makes more money from search engine marketing ads = True or False? Again, obviously true.

Google has as much money as Microsoft = True or False? False. Google doesn’t have 10% the money Microsoft has.

Google makes more money per year than Microsoft = True or False? False again. Microsoft makes much more money than Google each year.

Google Apps and Office Collaborations are a threat to Microsoft = True or False. False. Maybe someday, if Microsoft screws up royally somewhere down the road in a few years or an act of GOD happens, maybe, just maybe Google could threaten Microsoft in the software arena.

I don’t know why it is, but so many people out there think that Google is a real threat to Microsoft somehow. Maybe it’s wishful thinking. Maybe it’s that online you hear more about google than you do microsoft. But the bottom line is Google has a very very long way to go to actually be half as big as microsoft.

Only in search and advertising on the web is google bigger than microsoft. Saying that means Google is a threat to microsoft is like saying that since some local bicycle store sold more bicycles this year than the local Wal-Mart, that the local bicycle store is a threat to Wal-Mart.