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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. Bill Gates is a Shit Head by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Go on, disagree with me.

  2. Obvious reason: *BSD is Dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying

    Yet another
    crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered *BSD community when recently IDC confirmed that *BSD
    accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of the
    latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that *BSD has lost more market share, this
    news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *BSD is collapsing in complete disarray,
    as fittingly exemplified by
    failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.


    You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com]
    to predict *BSD's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *BSD faces a bleak future.
    In fact there won't be any future at all for *BSD because *BSD is dying. Things are
    looking very bad for *BSD. As many of us are already aware, *BSD continues to lose market
    share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. FreeBSD is the most endangered of them all, having
    lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time
    FreeBSD developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point
    more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBSD is dying.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.


    OpenBSD leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBSD. How many users of NetBSD
    are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBSD versus NetBSD posts on Usenet is roughly in
    ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBSD users. BSD/OS posts on
    Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBSD posts. Therefore there are about 700 users
    of BSD/OS. A recent article put FreeBSD at about 80 percent of the *BSD market. Therefore
    there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBSD users. This is consistent with the number of
    FreeBSD Usenet posts.

    Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on,
    FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled
    OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.


    All major surveys show that *BSD has steadily declined in market share. *BSD is very sick
    and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *BSD is to survive at all it will
    be among OS hobbyist dabblers. *BSD continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could
    save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *BSD is dead.

    Fact:
    *BSD is dead