MS admits Newsbot Biased Towards MSNBC

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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Google

[aweraw]

It's this kind of strategy that will keep them from ever beating google

Can you say shoot yourself in the foot?

[FiReaNGeL]

Wow... admitting this, they just anhililated any chances they had of beating google news (my major news source, since I don't listen to radio or TV), at least for me...

I mean, i'm interested in the most interesting articles, not the MSNBC one...

Oh well.
Google is better anyway :)

Re:This is a good example of MS.....

[Jim Starx]

That's kinda his point. He's not going to go there because he doesn't like those terms. Neither am I. Neither are a ton of other people. That's a crutch for them if they're trying to overtake google.