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Microsoft Introduces Competition For Google News
Romeo E. Cabrera writes "In advance of an imminent launch of its own search engine, Microsoft has launched its own version of the popular Google News service. Based initially on feeds from the Moreover news aggregation service, the new beta service (known as MSN Newsbot) aims to provide news on a range of subjects including World, Sports, Entertainment, Science and Technology."
"Does Linux cause cancer? Find out at MSnewsbot.com. ... Bill Gates: Terrific Dancer. ... Dow down 5000 points. ... Study: 92 percent of Linux users are gay.. ... Oil slicks found to keep penguins young, supple. ... Steve Ballmer: Awesome."
It's a total rip off of google, so i see no reason to use it... but when I first went to check it out, i noticed 1 story at the top of technology, with the headline:
"Tapping into the growing interest to Wintel computers"
At least they're not censoring the news.... yet =)
Etc... Etc... Etc...
(All this is said firmly tongue-in-cheek, of course...)
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The best part of that page was the poll: "Have you tried online dating?" That was the previous poll on Slashdot wasn't it?
Well, give them a bit of credit. The most prominent story in the Tech department is Sun's plan to partner with AMD and offer Wintel alternatives...
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"News flash: Linux Usage Causes Impotence ... Windows 2003 brings hope and prosperity to third-world contries ... Linus Torvalds: Subversive Fascist, or Raging Red Communist? ... Study shows Childen who use MICROSOFT products are smarter than their stupid peers ... MSN Newsbot Causes Correction in Polar Ice-Caps ...
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It is interesting that the newsbot looks so much like Google's news page that it even sports the "(beta)" disclaimer.
Has miscrosoft ever released public products or services that were labeled beta? From my memory, everything they produced was the most complete, functional, secure and final solution around.
...at some of the code that will drive this application.
if (section == technology) {
if strFound("linux", "J2EE") {
mod_down()
} elseif strFound(".NET") {
mod_up()
}
}
so we're all waiting for "innovation" number 3...
3. A secure Operating System "like Linux"...
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R O F L ... that was the point, einstein...
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Yahoo news has been pretty good for quite awhile. MS is doing nothing but trying to "keep up with the Joneses." Most newspaper sites do the same thing. They just don't pay for as many newsfeeds.
MS has some really brainy product people: "We need to do something."
"I can't think of anything."
"How about we copy google?"
"Too hard."
"Ok, how about we just copy parts of google?"
"Ok... news. We'll just aggregate."
"Cool... we'll just chip away at Google."
"We've got more money than god... they'll cave sooner or later."
MS buys a hundred Dell servers, hires a contractor to come in and set up the scripting. They hire 2 people to keep the 100 Dells running linux... I meant 50 people to keep the 100 Dell machines running Windows 2003.
MS starts issuing press releases before the contractor is ready. The advertising people have all of the Intel/MS cronies lined up for advertising spots. They start beating on the contractor when the site sucks.
MS starts reporting estimated revenue streams to Wall Street. Everyone is happy. The general public buys Windows XP, they aren't even asked if they'd like their default news page set to MS. It's just done.
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"From my memory, everything they produced was the most complete, functional, secure and final solution around."
I guess that depends on your definition of "final solution"...
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I'm really thrilled by this.
Earlier this week, we saw Microsoft announce they were offering a online music service next year, kinda like what Apple are already offering now with iTunes and what the rest of the community have been doing with Napster et al for years.
They also did a spoof of the Matrix (the original), just like Borland did a while ago, and of course every man and his dog has since the original was released years ago.
And now they are introducing a news service just like Google's already perfectly good one.
What further "innovation" will we see from Redmond? I can hardly wait.
Matt