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Google Still Ahead In Search Competition

Posted by michael on from the second-place-is-first-loser dept.

ricst writes "Google is, as we all know, King of the Hill. But Yahoo, MSN and others have come a long ways towards catching up as this International Herald Tribune article describes. The gap between 'best' and 'next best' has narrowed substantially. The good thing is that we all benefit as these guys keep challenging each other."

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  1. maybe its just me by TubeSteak · · Score: 2, Funny
    But yahoo & MSN both have the same feel of google... espescially since they copied the cached page idea.

    just for giggles, i tried searching MSN for friend chicken and search result number nine was University of North Texas Dining Services' Menu. Not sure how relevant that is, or maybe its relevant to our discussion.... because it is not.

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    1. Re:maybe its just me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      You say you searched for "friend chicken", yet your URL points to a search for "fired chicken". Which is it?

    2. Re:maybe its just me by fname · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's the first time I've ever seen a double-typo! First, you searched for "fired chicken" instead of "fried chicken," then when you wrote about it, you claimed to have searched for "friend chicken." No wonder you were surprised by the results! And UNT only shows up so how because they also misspelled "fried chicken." Hilarious.

    3. Re:maybe its just me by g33ker · · Score: 2, Funny

      For the vegetarians among us:

      Friend Tofu

  2. Re:But Google's Behind In Search Patent Competitio by Gob+Blesh+It · · Score: 1, Funny

    You want to know how I pick my detergent? I choose the one with the most patents, because then I can be reasonably sure that time, money and effort went into researching how to keep my brights bright. (FYI, it's invariably P&G's Tide.)

    And I'm not kidding.

  3. Re:Googling. by __aailob1448 · · Score: 3, Funny

    13%, 8.6% and 0.04% respectively. Why?

  4. Re:Thanks To Everyone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The only reason I'm posting is because I had just woken from a nightmare

    Your first inkling after waking from a nightmare is posting to slashdot? That's the definition of a nightmare right there.

    For some reason, I had left my keys in the door lock... and about 10 people who were about to do no good figured this out.

    Where they friends bearing fired chicken?

  5. nonsense! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    The good thing is that we all benefit as these guys keep challenging each other.

    Nonsense! Things would be much better if the government simply nationalized all search engine companies. The government could publish a five year plan to direct the economy and things would be much more efficient and equitable. I'm absolutely sure that the workers would be much more happier under this system and productivity would increase fivefold.