Google v. Microsoft

ph43thon writes "The New York Times business section has an article, The Coming Search Wars, about Google and Microsoft. It's fairly long and pretty interesting. Oddly, the writer or somebody out there, seems to think that Google v. Microsoft is analogous to Netscape v. Microsoft. I wasn't aware that you needed to download special software to run this Google search application. Somehow, I don't think Microsoft will find this fight to be as easy."

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The real test of a search engine

[override11]

.... is how fast you can get to good porn. And so far Google has everything beat hands down. Cmon, http://images.google.com, turn off mature filter, search for 'teen boobs' or something like that and BAM, you are all set! Lets see MS beat that!

Re:The real test of a search engine

[JudgeFurious]

Ok, just to be fair I tested this and Google returned exactly one bad picture of a pair of boobs and it didn't even come from a porn site (yeah, I turned off the mature filter).

To add insult to injury it didn't even show the whole thing AND they were Britney Spears boobs (possibly).

Google, get back to work and fix this ASAP. I'm sure Microsoft is already making a special effort to focus on the "teen boobs" market and planning on showing additional hits for users of Internet Explorer.

Re:The real test of a search engine

[Anonymous Coward]

Google corrects you if you misspell "bukkake." I don't believe I've used another search engine since then.

Re:The real test of a search engine

[sewagemaster]

And so far Google has everything beat hands down

everything except the thing you need to beat with your hands...

Re:The real test of a search engine

[JudgeFurious]

Ah, I take that back. I forgot to save my preferences and so the removal of filters didn't take. The teen boob content was acceptable.

Apologies to Google and their great porn finding tools.

Re:The real test of a search engine

[ruiner13]

".... is how fast you can get to good porn. And so far Google has everything beat hands down."

Perhaps you meant hand over fist? ;)

Re:The real test of a search engine

[sewagemaster]

yeah, I turned off the mature filter. ...and now you complain you got pair of mature boobs instead of teen boobs!

Re:The real test of a search engine

[Trejkaz]

Maybe you would get better results from Booble.

Re:Lets hope that the result is progress

[Abit667]

The Internet is definatly getting dull since Goatse was shutdown.

Google v. Microsoft..

[Metallic Matty]

In this corner, weighing in at 110lbs a small, geeky nerd who has cornered the entire computer industry with its crippling monopoly software.

And in the other, weighing in at a thousand terabytes, a small, simple, yet incredibly efficient search engine, who has become a household name for internet searches.

I know who I'd place my money on.

(PS: I am aware of the fact that my numbers are inaccurate.)

Re:Lets hope that the result is progress

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.petitiononline.com/Goatse/petition.html

Not that I am a fan of petitions or anything.

Clippy!

[Anonymous Coward]

Welcome to Internet Explorer v. Longhorn. What would you like to do?

* Search the web for the content you want to find. You can enter the name of the site or a partial url here. (recommended)

* Search the web for music, movies, or on demand video/audio content.

* Search the web for products and/or services to buy.

* Enter the exact URL of the site you want (advanced)

Monkey porn

[eddy]

By adding "porn" I found this. Now what?

Re:Monkey porn

[kevcol]

I'd say his monkey was spanking him.

Re:Monkey porn

[Anonymous Coward]

"In this brave new world, you won't spank the monkey. The monkey will spank YOU!"
-Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Re:Monkey porn

[roystgnr]

GAH, PUT A WARNING ON THAT LINK!

He titled his post "Monkey porn". What exactly were you expecting to see when you clicked on it?

search.msn.com is better.

[An Onerous Coward]

MSN: litigious bastards
Google: litigious bastards

I definitely prefer MSN's results.

Re:Lets hope that the result is progress

[Anonymous Coward]

Ladies and gentlemen: the new definition of "misplaced ego".

You've sure stuck "another blow" alright. Where will I get my fix of whiny tech-bloggers if your site isn't available on MSN?

Oh, right, EVERYWHERE ELSE.

Re:Lets hope that the result is progress

[firewrought]

if you have a website and want to participate in the boycott it's darn simple

You forgot a step. Before doing this, you should take a look at your own website. If the content is crap that nobody wants to read, you should block google's spider instead fo MSN's. That way, MSN search results turn out to be useless and frustrating. :-)

Re:Lets hope that the result is progress

[Anonymous Coward]

Seeing as googlebombs seem to be in fashion at the moment I'd like to propose Microsoft and MSN.

Not enough of a pessimist

[Guppy06]

"I wasn't aware that you needed to download special software to run this Google search application."

That may be true now, but will the page still render in upcoming versions of IE?

Re:Lets hope that the result is progress

[Shaklee39]

_Great_ idea! First thing at work tomorrow I am going to disallow the microsoft crawler from our site. I am sure when I tell my boss about the news that I have now blocked the search engine giving us 70,000 page views per month. I can just see him giving me a raise for sticking it to the man! Thanks again!

Re:Lets hope that the result is progress

[Rallion]

Still. Look at Google.

Switching their title graphic constitutes a complete redesign.

Re:Lets hope that the result is progress

[PIBM]

Try googling "miserable result" (without quotes) and hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button :)

that's what I find : http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html