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How Objective Is Microsoft's Search?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the which-pants-do-geese-wear dept.

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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  1. Check out msn's search for linuxiso by Rick_Clark · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Linuxiso.org is a featured site. We even get a little MS butterfly.
    http://search.msn.com/results.asp?RS=C HECKED&FORM= MSNH&v=1&q=linuxiso

  2. Re:Actually, the top links are ads by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wow... inaccuracies in an article on Slashdot that make MS look worse than it actually is?

    If an MS article was posted WITHOUT an anti-Microsoft slant I'd probably start running through the streets for fear that the apocalypse is coming.

    Here's what happened, plain and simple. People are so eager to find something against Microsoft that they turned into typical "users" and didn't read. Now instead of admitting their typical "user" mistake of not READING they're trying to justify it by saying "most users will be fooled into thinking the ads were real results." Wait, you're telling me that a business is trying to get stupid people to click on ads through a little deception? Wtf is this world coming to. If you can't trust a business to not mislead you with ads, who can you trust?

  3. Classic search by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 5, Interesting
    On the other hand, try searching for "Microsoft" on MSN Search:

    Latest News: microsoft

    • Microsoft warns of critical IE flaws (MSNBC - Aug. 21)
    • Microsoft Windows: Insecure by Design (Washington Post - Aug. 24)
    • Microsoft finds security flaws (Boston Globe - Aug. 22)

    It cuts both ways :)

  4. Search for Open Source on MSN by CapS · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's pretty obvious that the results on MSN are biased. Do a search for open source on MSN. You get back a bunch of results that don't really apply. That is, except for the first result, which is an article on Infoworld about how SCO is hurting the open source movement. Now do the same search on Google--the results are _much_ more appropriate.