According to eWeek's Google Watch blog, Microsoft announced it has made a "significant" investment in web traffic analysis firm DeepMetrix. DeepMetrix provides a eerily similar service to that now being provided by Google's Analytics. According to eWeek, DeepMetrix's data will eventually be injected into most (if not all) online services from Microsoft. Real time analysis is a powerful tool, and I'm a little surprised it took MS this long to get into the game. But it looks like Ballmer is making the moves to at least try and "kill" Google ... Time (and lots of real-time data) will tell...