It seems over the past couple years people have started to hate on Google more and more. How long until Google's perception goes to MS levels?
in the eyes of web masters they are already #1 to get to general public they are not far behind from Microsoft.
Google may be hated, but only by the webmasters that consider themselves negatively affected by its policies. For the regular user, Google is still the most useful tool he can use on the Internet. SO to answer your question, only if everyone became a webmaster, Google would have a chance to outdo Microsoft.