Microsoft vs Google
Yahoo! have this interesting item which seems to indicate Microsoft want to make a move into the Internet searching market:
"We do view Google more and more as a competitor. We believe that we can provide consumers with a better product and a better user experience. That's something that we're actively looking at doing," Bob Visse, director of marketing for Microsoft's MSN Internet services division, said.I tell you what, it'd take a pretty awesome service before I'd stop use Google. How much better could it get! |
10:44am 04/04/03 Permalink
heh imagine using MS Search engine.
Search: Anti-trust and Microsoft Result: No result found Or Search: Linux ISO Result: http://www.microsoft.com/windows =D =D |
10:47am 04/04/03 Permalink
yep, I can imagine that microsoft thinks that google is too simple, which I think is infact what makes it so appealing you get and see exactly as much as you need.
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10:48am 04/04/03 Permalink
hhaha :) Yeah they might even have the "Clippy" assistance type pops up to annoy you :) |
10:50am 04/04/03 Permalink
yep, google is the best, they will have a hard time beating it.
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10:58am 04/04/03 Permalink
google rocks.
there's no gimmicks, no advertising and now you can seach for just in Australia :D yay! |
11:27am 04/04/03 Permalink
Go try and find something on technet or msdn using microsoft's search facility. It is hugely crap. Hugely.
If i've got a microsoft problem I go to google's microsoft site first rather than directly to MS. It's quick, it's simple, it works. |
12:10pm 04/04/03 Permalink
There would be such a nerd uproar if google was microsoftalised, someone would make a new google type thing. for a site as popular as google it's a surprise that there is no one in direct competition with it.
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12:32pm 04/04/03 Permalink
for a site as popular as google it's a surprise that there is no one in direct competition with it.can you elaborate here? I am sure all the other search engine's haven't all dried up and been swept under the sofa yet. |
12:38pm 04/04/03 Permalink
There is something about google that distinctly sets it apart from other www search websites, I don't care to define what it is about google that makes it so intuitively special, but I haven't seen another search engine that has it.
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12:42pm 04/04/03 Permalink
ah ok, all the extra features and tools that they add onto it, not just the raw searching ability.
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12:44pm 04/04/03 Permalink
there's no gimmicks, no advertising and now you can seach for just in Australia :D yay! Actually that statement about advertising is wrong. Google does advertise but they do it in a manor which is far more nice and clean than all the other tools wholl just chuck upa big obtrusive banner. On the right side of your searches there are usually small boxes under the heading: Sponsored Links. Thats their version of adds. Apparently it costs a S***LOAD to get an add there too. Understandable though I guess. |
12:52pm 04/04/03 Permalink
You cant beat google.
The name just owns. MircoGoogle. yerright.. |
01:31pm 04/04/03 Permalink
I find the arrogance of MS saying that they can do better than the number one search engine in the world, without having done ANYTHING to back it up pretty breathtaking.
Google has moved beyond search engine, it's now entered contemporary vocab (witness "google" as a verb. I dont know anyone who says "just altavista it, or just yahoo it) MS hating is old, but it's so typical of their attitude - see somebody else's innovation, bad mouth it, then rip it off. Just one I'd like to see them shut up and make their better version, and let people judge. |
02:14pm 04/04/03 Permalink
05:06pm 04/04/03 Permalink
Microsoft have ben googleplexed!!! lol i like it
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01:29am 05/04/03 Permalink
meh it's just a search engine, they come they go
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10:53am 05/04/03 Permalink
There's an anti-google site on the web that lists the issues some people have with it. It was mentioned in one of the news papers over the weekend: Google Watch.org.
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12:07pm 06/04/03 Permalink
Yeah you can't please everyone I suppose. But, somehow I'd imagine there'll be even more of these kind of sites if Microsoft ever took over Google :) |
01:26pm 06/04/03 Permalink
