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MS admits Newsbot Biased Towards MSNBC

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-of-course-it-would-be dept.

JasdonLe writes "According to this article at the Washington Post, Microsoft's recently unleashed news aggregator site, Newsbot will choose to display MSNBC articles over other articles on the same topic. "As Newsbot resides on MSNBC and is branded as such, MSNBC is considered a first among equals, meaning that if they and another top-tier source offer the same story, information, etc., MSNBC will be listed first, followed by other sources," says Elizabeth Herrera Smith, Microsoft spokeswoman."

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  1. Actually, it is. by Craevenwulfe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It's a NEWS-BOT.
    It's held on MSNBC
    It's looking locally to find a news item before it goes outside.

    Are you stupid or do you just really like badly designed shit?

  2. Revisionist History? by davegust · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you've learned nothing else about Microsoft over the years, you should at least know that they haven't grown by being "better" at anything.

    Microsoft has plenty of technical victories:

    • Word vs. Word Perfect, WordStar
    • Excel vs. 123, Quattro, etc
    • Windows vs. OS/2 (better application support)
    • Visual Studio 6.0 vs. Borland C++
    • IE5 vs. lack of Navigator 5 - this was Netscape's folly