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Google v. Microsoft

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the death-match dept.

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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  1. The real test of a search engine by override11 · · Score: 5, Funny

    .... 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!

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    1. Re:The real test of a search engine by JudgeFurious · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

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    2. Re:The real test of a search engine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. Re:Lets hope that the result is progress by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.

  3. Re:Lets hope that the result is progress by firewrought · · Score: 5, Funny
    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. :-)

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  4. Re:Monkey porn by roystgnr · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?