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Microsoft Takes Aim At Google
TiredOfCrap writes "People are underestimating what Microsoft is doing with search technology, says Bill Gates.
The head of the software giant told the BBC that its ambition is to be bigger than Google in search.
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The head of the software giant told the BBC that its ambition is to be bigger than Google in search
Yeah, and my ambition is to be an astronaut-playboy-robot-vampire that fights crime and plays lead guitar in his own thrash metal band on the weekends, but I don't think my ambition is terribly realistic either.
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Telling someone to Microsoft for the answer just doesn't sound the same as googling for it...
> People are underestimating what Microsoft is doing with search technology, says Bill Gates. The head of the software giant told the BBC that its ambition is to be bigger than Google in search.
"Whoops, here's another hot application that we didn't see coming."
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
As someone much wiser than me once said, "The day Microsoft starts making a product that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuum cleaners."
If a baby duck is a "duckling," why would anyone want to eat "dumplings?"
Err yeah, I'm sure the richest man in the world has learned all about how his 'beat the competition' business plans are doomed to fail yet again ;)
-Rick
"Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
"its ambition is to be bigger than Google in search. ""
,Google prepare for a smack-down
..OH YEAH . Were going to fucking bury them ..BALLMER SMASH BALLMER SMASH
.. Google your title reign is over
Which was the BBC Censored version of..
Gates: We will take them down and destroy their families and friends
Ballmer:THEY ARE GOING DOWN
Gates : yeah , See you on RAW
Ballmer : *Smashes interviewer over the head with a chair* DEVELOPER DEVELOPER DEVELOPER DEVELOPER DEVELOPER.
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
Who says I can't talk to my computer?
1) Black helicoptors
2) "Re-education"
3) ???
4) WORLD DOMINATION!!!
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. - Winston Churchill
So finally we know what William wishes for his 50th birthday.
Hey guys, we need to collect some more dimes for the gift!
Maybe Computers will never be as intelligent as Humans.
For sure they won't ever become so stupid. [VR-1988]
When I can go to microsoft.com and search about the problem I'm having with Exchange and get better results than by searching google.com using site:microsoft.com, THEN Microsoft can tell me how great their search engine is.
Until that happens, its all FUD.
People are underestimating what Microsoft is doing with [ANY] technology, says Bill Gates. The head of the software giant told [ALL WHO'D LISTEN] that its ambition is to be bigger than [COMPANY X] in [WHATEVER COMPANY X DOES].
Seeing bad movies only encourages them. Watch responsibly
Dear God, NO, not the Bill Gates wedding night video!!!
I am not a crackpot.
Clippy: Did you mean, you would like an honest comparisson of the Linux-TCO and the "Windows Server 2007"-TCO?
Clippy will redirect you in 5 seconds, unless you click NO
[Yes] [Yup] [OK]
For the perfect anti-Unix, write an OS that thinks it knows what you're doing better than you do and let it be wrong.
He must have been so satisfied when he had "Windows 95" as a phallic symbol.
For the perfect anti-Unix, write an OS that thinks it knows what you're doing better than you do and let it be wrong.
Apparently, none of the top problems in computer science are going to be solved in the United States.
At least not by Microsoft...
And I suppose the White Sox are going to win a World Series?
...oh wait...
Once I was a four stone apology. Now I am two separate gorillas.
Sounds too much like missin'.
Like, missin' alot of data that Google has.
Thank you ladies and gentlemen. I'll be here all week.
Who do you get to be an expert to tell you something's not obvious? The least insightful person you can find? -J Roberts
Anyone see the similarities between him in that picture, and Kryton?
http://www.javascrypt.com/spike-o-rama/kryton/
That's how they plan on beating Google. By killing them. The only thing I can't figure out is how to kill a search engine. Perhaps throwing chairs at their fiber backbone? Maybe a few more chairs thrown around in their server farm?
Perhaps now would be a good time for Google to start researching what to do if Steve Ballmer decides to kill you.
Content Management System: A pretentious way of saying "text editor."
"We are stronger than ever because we have a research lab in Cambridge, we have one now in China, one in India and that is where the top problems in computer science are going to be solved."
I don't know why they spend so much on these research labs. All of Microsoft's best ideas come from the unofficial Microsoft Research lab in Cupertino, which they don't pay for.
Tired of FB/Google censorship? Visit UNCENSORED!
Dear God, NO, not the Bill Gates wedding night video!!!
the longest and worst 30 seconds I ever saw...
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
... for Microsoft to be bigger than Google in SEARCHing.
See, the alchemists have SEARCHED for the Philosopher's stone for centuries.
FINDING, on the other hand... is a very different business!
1. Get Mom to buy you subscription to Slashdot so you can get first post.
2. Google topic and link first three returns as "Article is short on details, more info can be found here, here and here. And Zonk sucks."
3. ^_^
4. KARMA!
Persistence is futile. You will be metamoderated.
I don't think you used that correctly. To "Microsoft" means to blow something out of your ass.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
That's "to tubgirl".
"Microsoft Takes Aim at Google"...... shoots self in foot.
You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike.
There is a lot of hype here.
-Tez
Haskell, the static-typed, lazy, polymorphic, programming language.
Try Steve Ballmer, you idiot.