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Just by looking at the data, you can tell that there is nothing of statistical significance to the "discrepencies"... no compelling support for or against.

You haven't gotten to this page. That one shows the problem most strongly and clearly.

Out of 984 test queries, the critically important top ten front page results contain predominantly IIS results 590 times on MSN. That happens 199 times on Google, 155 times on Teoma, and 122 times on Yahoo.

MSN front page is predominantly ISS 60.0% of the time.
Google front page is predominantly ISS 20.2% of the time.
Teoma front page is predominantly ISS 15.8% of the time.
Yahoo front page is predominantly ISS 12.4% of the time.

The other search engines are in the same ballpark, 16.3% plus or minus 3.9%. IIS are minority of the servers out there by a substantial margin, yet Microsoft dominates their front page results with their own product an astounding 60% of the time.

A minority product making up a majority of the front page a majority of the time.

The exact mechanism causing it is unknown, but it is signifigant news even if it is not deliberate. Considering Microsoft's past admited or proven deliberate actions, it seems signifigantly likely that it is deliberate. Even if we assume it *is* accidental, it is still an antitrust violation if Microsoft is informed of this bias favoring their own product and they fail to fix the bias.

So even if Microasoft is innocent now, they will be guilty if they fail to do anything about it.

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Yeah the trouble is that the person who submitted the story linked to the old "original" result set i.e. the "/orig/" in the url rather than the more complete more recent results at: http://www.ivor.it/goog

I guess the "MSN against Google" report is more attention grabbing.

I was comparing to the ratios of the netcraft survey. Also if you look at the more recent report which unfortunately wasn't linked in the submitters post you'll see I compare Google, MSN, Teoma and Yahoo.

Please note

This link is to the older results.... the more recent anaysis of 1000 words can be found at this page

Thanks

Believe it...

First off, I looked at the difference in means for Apache rankings in MSN and Google. 61.5% (MSN) vs. 64.3% (Google) for 970 observations Right there, you ought to be able to eyeball it and see significance. But, to make sure, here are the results of a t-test which checks the likelihood that two matched sets have different means (forgive the crappy formatting):

M G
Mean 0.615061856 0.642948454
Variance 0.01100624 0.008740111
Observations 970 970
Hypothesized Mean Difference 0
df 969
t Stat -10.51551356
P(one-tail) 7.26569E-25
t Critical one-tail 1.646427658
P(two-tail) 1.45314E-24
t Critical two-tail 1.962415113

As you can see, the P is 1.45 x 10^-24, which at least makes us think the results are not pure coincidence. I don't intend on speculating on the causality, though...

Tha article actually links to an older smaller version of the analysis. There's a more comprehensive wordlist at: http://www.ivor.it/goog

/tinfoil hat back on/
Or is it because you're running an Apache server?
/tinfoil hat off/

Running a few tests against the results shows the MSN search returning proportionally more IIS servers for the same results than Google, Teoma or Yahoo. Analysis here

I've used both Xine and Mplayer without problems, and yes, playback is smooth with the hardware decoder. With the M12000 it's not smooth for any reasonable resolutions if you don't use the hardware decoder...

The main problem was getting the right X drivers installed... Take a look here for one approach. And in particular, note that if you run into weird problems with the colour balance, you've installed an old buggy driver - I almost went crazy before I stumbled across the explanation somewhere.

If you haven't bought a VIA EPIA board yet, research it thoroughly before doing so - the different boards can have quite different chipsets on them, so the level of support for Linux (particularly video and audio) may wary quite a lot.

It would be nice if they published some specs of the power gain for their commercial cantenna to back up the claims that it is more powerful though.
It looks like similar dimensions to my "Campari" cantenna which I've tried to model the gain for. link.
Comparing its performance to a commercial antenna which I have the spec sheet for suggests the calculations are pretty accurate too.

I followed the FAQ link to d-link's website and found a link to a binary driver. So the claim that no driver exists is a wash. Granted, no source code... but its a non-trival task to decompile the drivers, and definatly inside the realm of possibilities. Am I missing something, or was the original poster, or did d-link sneak in the linkage in responce to a slashdot effect?