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Is Microsoft Crawling Google?
triplecoil writes "Jason Dowdell over at WebProNews has written a piece questioning a tactic Microsoft might be using to beef up its new search engine. He thinks they might be dipping into Google's results to supplement its own. Dowdell likens it to leaving your garbage on the curb--anyone could conceivably go through it and take whatever is there for their own."
You mean M$ is searching through somebody else's stuff? Well... I'll be damned...
The new search engine's name will be Mooglesoft.
Couldn't Google just crawl Microsoft in return? Then they'd be stuck in an endless loop, and William Shatner can then swoop in, crack some skulls, and save the day.
Or something like that.
biffnix
Don't Die Wondering
Nah, never happens....
100% Insightful
more evil than satan
ROOFLES!
Such trouble. Just buy the damned company.
Well, that kind of business practice would be completely out of character for Microsoft.
This is a non-story. A good Slashdot headline will be when they get caught actually NOT doing something like this.
Microsoft Has Original Idea and Implements it By Themselves
From the 70%-of-slashdot-editors-suffered-heart-attacks -reading-this-submission Dept.
Why stop there? Google should just ban all of Microsoft's netblocks to prevent their employees from gathering useful information from them...
"Begun, this war of the corporations has!"
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
"Google happily changed its habbits..."
Google is Catholic?
The Geek Crew
Microsoft could create a new distributed crawler that comes bundled with Windows! Every Windows user could crawl Google for them, and then Google's only option would be to block everyone using an MS product.
Remember, helping Microsoft is like helping yourself.
Microsoft's beta search engine's index doubled in size to over 8 billion pages.
SIGFAULT
Hey Google, please don't make us read those wacky JPG/GIF letter scrambles with criss-cross lines and input the random characters into a field before submitting a search.
"Hold on a sec while I Goog- Huh? Grrrr.... H... P... 7... O... wait no, 7... zero... ummm...
This one gang kept wanting me to join cause I'm pretty good with a bo staff.
If you don't want people (or bots) viewing it then password protect it or take it off the public interweb.
Interweb? Is that the same as the 'Information superhighway'?
Interweb? Is that the same as the 'Information superhighway'?
They're very similar. One notable difference is that the Information Superhighway was invented by Al Gore.
Free yourself. Everything else will follow.
In the early days of MSN Bot, it ate up about 4 GB of my bandwidth on ONE html page, requesting it constantly, every few seconds for days! I emailed Microsoft and they replied with a 'oops, we found the problem'. That doesn't pay my bandwidth overage changes, does it?
Yes, but I invented the "Information Historic Old Country Road" its not fast, and there ain't much information, but its so durn quaint you gotta love it.
-kaplanfx
Visualize Whirled Peas
Or just return a bunch of fake links:
"Madame X's House of Leather"
"Hot slutty teens!"
"Wet & Wild College Girls!"
Etc.
Microsoft would stop leeching REAL quick.
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microsoft is looking at old pages, google uses a cache...ergo microsoft must be using google.
if we're going to use that kind of logic, I could just as easily come up with "afghanistan is in the middle east and supports terrorist, iraq is in the middle east...ergo, iraq must support terrorists", and use it to make a case for invading iraq...but you don't see......oh wait