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Inspecting MSN Search
ins0maniac writes "I compared Yahoo, Google and MSN's image search. I noticed that, MSN's search had images from only a few sites. I searched for keywords britney spears and randomly checked few pages upto page number 20 and found that the 400 images were only from 3 domains :| 5in9.com, celebritypicturesarchive.com and nabou.com. This is totally weird as it doesn't seem like a search engine, but a collection of few online galleries." There's a number of other interesting notes in the entry about the new search engine. Also, Britney.
Judging by microsofts tactics, the results that show have probably paid microsoft to display their results. Microsoft products working well.. and free... that is impossible
There is a difference between marketing and advertising,
advertising is just one of the many tools of marketing.
Marketing consists of finding out what the people you want to sell to want,
even if they the people don't know they want it, and delivering.
If Microsoft's target market wanted safe, standards compliant, customizable
browsers, that is what Microsoft would deliver. Too bad we are not their target.
e.g. When the mass of people Microsoft caters to started getting tired of popups,
adware and spyware, they started getting solutions elswhere. Microsoft's
marketing department noticed, and we now have IE's pop-up blocker and Microsoft Anti-Spyware.
R&D cost for blocker and antispyware: $0 (Just copy other browsers, or buy it from Giant)
Marketing cost: $Millions (Who has not heard of it? How many press releases and covert publicity?)
And to stay in topic, how many grannys, Joe Sixpacks, stupid managers, etc... care wether Britney's pictures come from 3 or 2.5 million different sources? They just want their pictures NOW!