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."

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I for one, welcome our Microsoft overlords

[SharpFang]

I for one, welcome our Microsoft overlords buying Ask Jeeves, and piss my pants from happiness. One service worth another. I used Ask Jeeves maybe twice and in both cases I left heavily pissed off. Following their advice I was asking plain english questions like "Where do I find X" and got 100 answers to questions "Where do I find Y" where Y = [Omega] \ X. I'd be really glad if Ask Jeeves went where it really belongs, simultaneously with Microsoft wasting their $$$ on a worthless service.