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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Re:MSN is not required to be Objective

[jonman_d]

The only difference is that Microsoft is a monopoly. In the United States, monopolies have to play by different rules than other corperations. This is an example of them abusing their power - by default, IE is set to search via MSN. Many people don't know the differences between search engines, and will leave it as MSN.

Microsoft is using this to their advantage, creating an anti-competitive tool.