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Why Microsoft Wants to Buy Google
xihr writes "Harry Fletcher writes in The Inquirer about an obvious discrepancy between searches for "linux windows" on Google and MSN; the former comes up with almost 9 million hits, but the latter only comes up with -- wait for it -- 16. The author then speculates on Microsoft's ulterior motives for their attempted (and failed) purchase of Google."
Even funnier is a search for 'Linux' on MSN. Amazon, eBay, and two Microsoft sites, one of them about 'Alternatives to Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP', come up before Linux.org does. According to MSN there are only 365 sites about Linux on the Web. Google says there are 92,000,000.
Biased? Microsoft? Never!
Microsoft just wants to correct them. Linux doesn't exist, darn it.
Search google and msn for "linux advantages"
I got 450k hits on msn and only 350k hits from google.
The first page on msn were positive articles... not links to MS sites saying there were none.
Clearly someone at MSN has screwed up!
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
No it isn't. Did you *actually* go to the MSN site or are you just trolling.
The MSN search clearly states:
Results 1-15 of about 16 containing "linux windows"
OTOH...
Results 1-15 of about 126572 containing "microsoft sucks"
Bill!! Save us! We actually have weirdos who wade through 9 million hits! Save us, please! 16 is all we need!
Just for fun, I tried a few other searches. In order of relevance:
linux windows - 16 results
microsoft is a fundamentally evil monopolist - 115 results
windows - 2373 results
microsoft ate my balls - 6207 results
so we can all see where their heads are at...
What a strange bird is the pelican, his beak can hold more than his belly can.
Searched the web for Linux.
Did you mean: Windows
Searched the web for Free Software.
Did you mean: Capitalism
Searched the web for speaker bracelets
Did you mean: Microsoft Windows
Searched the web for candle trucks
Did you mean: Microsoft Windows
Clearly, those platforms that MS does not like are treated differently than less popular (and less threatening?) technologies.
Clearly, they find some topics more offensive than others!
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
That little exercise showed no bias at all! Let me try my own experiment... I'll search for "powerpoint":
Google: 6,260,000 hits
MSN: 14 hits
I conclude that Microsoft is trying to kill their own PowerPoint product (even more than they want to kill Linux!). Thankfully, the people at Google must rely on PowerPoint so much, they want to make sure to keep the word out there.
Or... stay with me here... maybe Google has a more powerful and capable search engine that can harvest more results. I suppose its possible THAT could explain why Microsoft would want to buy them.
MSN:
34 pancakes
41 waffles
232 frogs
695 sky
3117 tree
Goooooogle - said "...about xxx,xxx"
791,000 pancakes
412,000 waffles
640,000 frogs
20,700,000 sky
37,600,000 tree
Which proves Microsoft hates pancakes, waffles, frogs, the sky and trees. Bastards!
Would hate to Slashdot Google
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Everyone hates me because I'm paranoid.
Try "evil empire microsoft" ... www.microsoft.com
The first result on MSN is
I sense evil.
Perhaps someone needs to explain how capitalism is supposed to work to the clueless Google management team. Looks like they still think that offering a better product/service translates into financial gain for the company.
Don't they know anything about changing a horizontal market into a vertical one, locking users in with Digital Restrictions Management, absolving all sense of responsibility with a EULA, and ensuring product obsolescence?
Amazing that these guys could even find funding with their cluelessness. Must've occurred during the irrational dot-com business-model era in the 90's.
Results 1-15 of about 1136552 containing "freebsd"
Results 1-15 of about 341343 containing "openbsd"
You don't have to be Kreskin to see the handwriting on the wall...
My favorite, though, was from Discovery Kids:
Discovery Kids - Vomit
Learn new vomit words as well as facts about why people vomit, how we do it, and why it looks green.
yucky.kids.discovery.com/noflash/body/yuckystuff/v omit/js.index.html
Language students: Don't try to learn English here. This ain't it.
Linux is more popular than Jesus.
Linux
Alta Vista 12,435,923
Google 96,900,000
msn 365
Yahoo 55,200,000
Dog Pile (Infospace) 102
Lycos 26,838,236
Excite 111
Alltheweb 17,082,765
Jesus
Alta Vista 6,377,521
Google 23,800,000
msn 432
Yahoo 15,900,000
Dog Pile (Infospace) 114
Lycos 34,032,913
Excite 107
Alltheweb 26,131,824
Interesting to note, a search of Infospace and Microsoft on Google comes up with 35,000 hits. Further reading indicates a large number of partnering going on.
Conspiracy or just bad search engines?
WARNING: WE HAVE NOT CONDUCTED A FELONY-CONVICTION SEARCH OR FBI SEARCH ON THIS INDIVIDUAL.
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members are seeing something, your seeing an ad
Ah yes, searching on google for xxx. We've all been there.
-- And when Justice is gone, there is always... Force. --Laurie Anderson, "Oh Superman"
Google:
* 6.2 million hits for Money shot
MSN:
* 1.7 hits for Money Shot
Google: The one stop porn search shop
Um, Linux is Jesus, where have you been? You know, right? It saves us?
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Wow. Now that's a comprehensive search if I ever saw one.
I don't know if this was mentioned already but while "Windows" only gets around 2,300 hits "Windows Sucks" gets around 211,000 hits.
I was going to compare this to the number of Mac vs Mac sucks hits, but I had to stop when I did the Mac sucks search and the first entry was "Why Microsoft sucks".
Webcrawler- 116 hits for "porn", but only 36 for "nuclear fusion".
I sense a pro-pornography, anti-nuclear bias in Webcrawler!
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
Much akin to the progress indicator for transferring this file has been saying 30seconds for more than an hour.
Hey, give them some credit where credit is due. They have made some tremendous speed boosts when it comes to progress bars. That first 99% goes by in only 1% of the time. You can't get that kind of performance under Linux.