Microsoft Looks At Other Search Engines

ZuperDee writes "It looks like Microsoft is now looking for another search engine to buy. They are looking at Ask Jeeves and Looksmart, but they recently dumped Looksmart, after deciding that its results don't stack up well. So would anyone be surprised if they bought Ask Jeeves? It can't hurt that according to Netcraft, they already run Microsoft IIS."

Comments

Asking Jeeves...

[Tackhead]

So I asked Jeeves: "Would a steaming chunk of goat turd by any other name still search as poorly?"

And it told me my search did not match with any Web results.

Rumor mill

[unsung]

Oh geez... such rumours are befitting of pump and dump schemes. Be careful!!!!!

Altavista is excelent these days

[despistao]

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Re:But does anyone use them?

[sahonen]

But then Netscape started to suck. I used to use Netscape in spite of the pretty IE icon sitting right there, but then I saw that IE was faster and rendered pages better. Now that IE's behind the times, I've switched to Firebird and I'm getting all my friends to as well.

Re:But does anyone use them?

[irc.goatse.cx troll]

Firebird is nice, but its not really production quality. After looking at an XSL page for a while it can sometimes start to lag uncontrollably. Also takes way too much cpu cycles when sitting idle. And then there is that time it ate all of my bookmarks..

Speed still doesnt compare to opera or even ie, but you can't really compare either of those to moz until they go opensource. The only real competition in the opensource browser market is khtml, but its rendering sucks.