Can Microsoft Beat Google?

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday February 4, 2005 @02:55AM from the they-beat-netscape-apple-and-ibm dept.

An anonymous reader writes "With all the hype surrounding the recent release of MSN Search, are the search engine wars heating up? There's an interesting article that states, "As the veteran Microsoft enters the already flooded search engine industry, and Google still being fresh and refreshing to most people, it begs the question: can the old supplant the new?""

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first friday february fourth post by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-04 02:56 · Score: -1, Offtopic

first friday february fourth post
begs the question by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-04 02:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic

why don't you look up what "begs the question" means, then resubmit this story.
Second Post by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-04 02:58 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Woo Hoo!!!

M$ Sux!
What if? by ceeam · 2005-02-04 03:07 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Let's wait until Microsoft enters the oil industry!! Bwahahahaha!!! : )
Re:Of course by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-04 03:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Does no one here understand irony?
Re:Of course by dioscaido · 2005-02-04 03:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Am I the only one that things blakestah was being sarcastic?
Re:Of course by MyLongNickName · 2005-02-04 03:12 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Sarcasm.

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Re:Marketing is the problem by 0BoDy · 2005-02-04 03:17 · Score: 0, Offtopic

In fact, he opposite is true of almost everything microsoft has done.

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Re:This has been asked before. by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-04 03:19 · Score: -1, Offtopic

So why did you use "it's" the first time and "its" the second time? You make it look like you can just randomly poke apostrophes in words!
Re:Of course by Anonymous Coward · 2005-02-04 03:22 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Am I the only one that things blakestah was being sarcastic?

I'lllll do the thinging around here!
Re:And by Anonymous+Writer · 2005-02-04 03:37 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Just curious- where on the net can you find out how to read all this alphanumeric slang?
Re:And by Safety+Cap · 2005-02-04 03:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic

WTF!!!!111 LOL!!!111

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Re:And by Safety+Cap · 2005-02-04 03:43 · Score: 0, Offtopic

d00d your teh suck!!11
LOL
j/k h.a.g.s. k.i.t. FFE!!!1

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Re:Of course by MyLongNickName · 2005-02-04 03:47 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Would the mods of the above post please refrain from using your mod points in the future. Pointing out the obvious sarcasm in the great grandparent post is NOT off-topic.

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I cant say I care much. by generalleoff · 2005-02-04 04:21 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I just dont think this is the place for internet search engine companys. It's extreamly easy to make a tiny 100k program that can search an NTFS drives MFT at a speed thats almost un noticable to any human and this is the method I use to search my system. Though this does not help people still using FAT or Linux and MAC formated drives :)