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Can Microsoft Beat Google?

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. no? by PacketScan · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think ms will steal everything they can from google. are googles days numbered?

  2. Re:Well by Washizu · · Score: 0, Troll

    "The power and information google has and will continue to imporve upon is scary."

    Did you mean: improve

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  3. Re:uh .. by shird · · Score: 0, Troll

    Uhm... are you using msn.com or search.msn.com?

    Google and search.msn are pretty much the same size. But you make a good point, most people are as stupid as you, and will go to msn.com instead of the proper page.

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  4. Re:Marketing is the problem by essreenim · · Score: 0, Troll
    If MS wants to win, they should focus on having a quality product, and not worry so much about promoting it. If they really do make something better, people will use it.

    What planet are you living on. And I'm guessing you're from the US so your population is expecially susceptible. All over the US, kids (and grown ups) are blowing bubble gum thats the same colour as the MSN search site and planning to go on line an welcome their new supreme overlords...

  5. Huh? by delmoi · · Score: 0, Troll

    Original Mac vis IBM PC/XT/AT?

    Was the original Mac better then the IBM PC at the time? A sealed, un-upgradeable box with no games, and a small monochrome screen? Puhleez.

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  6. Re:Of course by Gar+the+Great · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, but a growing number of people are becoming anti-Micro-Borg (soft) and thus choose Google, et al. as the de facto standard for search engines. Microsoft definitely has a leg up in revenues and "cash in the bank", but they also have the software/operating systems market to push as well. I'm sure MS can close the gap, but if they continue to create these "tentacle"-esk programs that just destroy your web-browser with stupid little add-ons, people are going to be dissuaded from their use. The features may be great, but there was a reason that Firefox guru's stripped down the Netscape Browser of all of its useless junk.

  7. Gmail is ready for public launch by glrotate · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't see how an email system without folders is ready.