How Objective Is Microsoft's Search?

bot writes "There have been a number of stories on Microsoft trying to do a 'Netscape' on Google.. what would a world in which Microsoft provides search look like? A search for 'linux' on msn.com give amazon and ebay as the top two results, and a microsoft site promoting migration from Linux to Windows as the fourth listing. A search on MSN India is even more amusing -- the top result is a dead link, and the second one is Linuxsucks.com."

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[rekkanoryo]

makes me a firm believer in the fact that Microsoft is not objective in any way. Then again, neither is any company, but hey, it's Slashdot, where Microsoft bashing is almost a national pastime :)

Re:How objective is www.linuxsucks.com?

[Anita Coney]

Idiotic?

First, the domain IS owned by InfoSpace. You assume that it's merely hosting, but it IS owned by Infospace, that's a fact.

You assume without ANY facts that LinuxSuck.com is an amateur effort. Remember, it IS owned by InfoSpace.

You utterly failed to read my post. There are MANY connections between Microsoft and InfoSpace. Like I said, do a search on Google and you can read them yourself.

Furthermore, Microsoft has out right LIED in the past. It stated under oath in the anti-trust lawsuit that it could not unbundle IE from the OS, but yet the government showed how it could be done.

Microsoft said under oath that it should not be forced to sell multiple versions of its OS because it would fragment the market (as well as other reasons). But, Microsoft now sells XP Home, XP Professional, XP MultiMedia, and XP Tablet editions.

Microsoft stated under oath that it could not divulge its source code for national security reasons. Then it proceeded to give the source code to India, China, and to various former Soviet Union countries.

Microsoft paid a third party to create a fictional character who switched from OSX to WinXP. (Seems pretty similar to what's happening to linuxsucks.com to me!)

Microsoft placed ads in South African magazines stating XP is completely and utterly hack proof. The government agency there made the company pull the ads.

I could go on and on. Microsoft has lied and deceived SO much in the past that if I'm faced with a possibility that they're lying and deceiving, I'll believe it. And furthermore, anyone who doesn't, is the moron wearing tin foil over his eyes and ears!