MSN Planning to Take on Google?

asyn42 writes "CNet is reporting what should be no surprise, Microsoft appears to be readying itself to take on Google for a position as the top search engine. The long range impact on the relationship between MSN and Yahoo/Inktomi is likely at risk."

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Oh yeah biznatches

[Anonymous Coward]

Frost Piss.

Make sure you thoroughly consider this...

[TrollBridge]

This might mean more than what you read here, so be careful. My former employer took interest in a similar Microsoft offer, and because I didn't fully understand it, I ended up losing my job.

I first became concerned when I noticed our mail admin returning from a meeting with our comapny's board of directors. The conversation had gotten rather heated, as there had been a good deal of shouting and cursing coming from the board room. Two days later he was fired.

Rumors began spreading when 3 more people were laid off under similar circumstances, and the general consensus was that these people had been unfairly screwed by management.

I had no idea how true those rumors were. I soon found myself before the board of directors, being asked what I thought about replacing our older Linux servers with Windows 2000 servers. I answered truthfully: that I was concerned that such a move might generate concern among our customers about their privacy. My supervisor considered this thoughtfully for a second, nodded, and the secretary locked the door of the office. Two of the directors, with deceptive strength and agility, bound and gagged me. My memory is somewhat blurry about this part, but I remember having my pants torn from my waist, and then all of the board members took turns ravaging my virgin cornhole. The rumors were true: there I was, being screwed by management because of my mistrust of Microsoft.

In the kind of shock that only comes with a brutal ass-raping, I stumbled back to my desk, thankfully unaware of the small stream of blood and man-cheese that had stained my underwear, oozed down my leg and began to pool in my shoe. To complete my utter humiliation, I was given my pink slip 3 days later, before I had even recovered from my ordeal.

I have always been concerned about Microsoft's security shortcomings, but I could never have prepared myself for the amount of personal violation that opposing the conglomerate would bring.

MS - Church

[Lazamataz]

Microsoft, the software giant, announced today that it was poised to take on God, Creator of the Heavenâ(TM)s and Earth.

MS, of course, announced this in anticipation of the new software product called Microsoft - Church. This product seamlessly withdraws tithings from your checking account and prints randomly-generated sermons.

DUPE DUPE DUPE!!!

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They think they own your computer.

[twitter]

The new WinFS (WinFS is not a file system), and one or two additions, they may claim a distributed database search. They can read your email and everyting else on your computer, what does Google have to beat that? Like everything else M$, it won't really work but they will praise it with billions of dollars worth of adverts, product review and astroturfing. They will also step up efforts to poison Google, an effort as likely to work as their Linux virus efforts have.

Re:News flash:

[nsda's_deviant]

maybe it isn't newsworthy but think about this:
why in the fuck does microsoft have to go out and dominate the market in EVERYTHING?

Microsoft went out and NEEDED to be the number 1 portal so they created MSN. They NEEDED to be number 1 in instant messaging so they created MSN Messenger, They NEEDED to be number 1 in browsers so we have IE, also for refrence: XBOX, Office, MS Money, MSN Internet Access, Media Player

All of those products are completelly unprofitable (except Office), but why is Microsoft out to dominate the entire world? Sure there are the evil jokes but can't Microsoft give us decent operating systems that don't choke until the 5th revision? Why are they devoting so many resources to tasks that are seeminglly insignigent? What kind of benefits can Microsoft actually gain by out doing google?

I'm not invested in MS but I have a hard time seeing how all of these directions at MS are going to help MS as generating revnue. So what if IE6 has won the world? Does winning the browser race actually matter?

So far it looks like Microsoft wants to be like the evil corperation in Alien.

Re:Found it

[lightcycle]

And microsoft zealots complain about linux having a long way to go towards usability... oh the irony

Re:All I can say is

[tgrigsby]

Google is popular, but Alta Vista rocks. And one step down for accuracy, but mucho points for organization, is Vivisimo. For performance and functionlity, Google is a high school project in comparison.