Microsoft Claims Worlds Best Search Engine Soon

kw writes "Microsoft will introduce a search engine better than Google in six months in the United States and Britain followed by Europe, its European president said on Wednesday. "What we're saying is that in six months' time we'll be more relevant in the U.S. market place than Google," said Neil Holloway, Microsoft president for Europe, Middle East and Africa. That timing would presumably coincide more or less with the launch of Vista."

Comments

Re:I hope they do

[mgblst]

I would love it if Google just banned some sites from appearing on their search results, like about.com. This would improve there service.

Do you remember

[OzPeter]

AltaVista ?

"However - and this is big - how can Microsoft change the habits and behavior of many millions of users?"

AltaVista used to be *the* search engine a long time ago. So you could go back a few years and ask the same question about Google.

Haven't we heard this before?

[a_nonamiss]

Forgive me for sounding cynical, but we've been hearing a steady stream of these announcements for years now from multiple companies.

If they were going to have a search engine better than Google, they would just do it, not announce it 6 months in advance. What, do they think that we need to prepare for this momentous event? Like our society isn't ready for a search engine of this power yet, so they need to warn us 6 months in advance to give us time to prepare?

Stop making announcements and do it already.

Re:same trick as msn search

[Asphalt]

I'll be happy if web developers can quit wringing their hands over how to "optimize their site for Google".

Too many people are skimping on quality content, and spending more and more time trying to "please Google". It has just gotten to the point of silliness.

It's gotten to be a real problem. You can have crap content but come in first or second if you obsess over optimization, but if you simply concentrate on content, and not Google, you may not come up in a search.

I'll would like to see an engine that can better evaluate content, and free people up from trying to cater to one particular engine.

I use frames and PHP on some client sites that are widely regarded as the best of the informative source of information in their respective fields, but they come up on page 5 of Google, wheras some meta tag hogs with flashing banner ads and one line of text related to the topic comes in number 1 or 2.

I would like to see "Optimizing your site for Google" to become obsolete.

Re:Vista phising protection

[GoodbyeBlueSky1]

In vista (in IE7, actually), everytime you enter a url in the browser, the browser sends the url to microsoft to know if the url is safe or not

This is true but you can turn this "feature" off.

I think GP's point was how, once again, Microsoft will use their OS monopoly to compete unfairly in another market (here, search engines. somehow the concept of searching online has now become a market...)

In other words, who cares if you can turn it off? Most users won't. How many people turned off that fucking Clippy thing in Office? Not enough of em.