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Microsoft Workers Prefer Google

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the best-of-breed dept.

dhollist writes "A story just released by the Inquirer shows that 80% of incoming search requests from Microsoft's domain arrived via Google's search engine. In contrast, 64% of Yahoo! staff and 100% of Google staff use their own company's search engine. How's that for a product endorsement? I'd guess that Microsoft may soon add google.com to the list of blocked URL's on their intranet."

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  1. I've recently been finding google to be worse... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "Vole" insider here...

    I've used Google for ages now (6 or 7 years?). In my pre-"Vole" days I worked at a web startup and was constantly recommending Google to our customers - as well as working hard to make sure we showed up on Google.

    But recently I've found Google to be doing a worse job when I'm searching for things I care about at work. It used to be the exact opposite. MSN used to never return anything close to what I wanted. Instead it gave me a bunch of jibber-jabber that I didn't care about. Today Google is the one full of jibber-jabber, and MSN is right on.

    I'll give you an example. Now, if you're not an MS employee YMMV (FileSystemWatcher).

    Google
    MSN

    Google: MSDN shows up #6
    MSN: It's #1

    Another example - if you're more into win32 vs .NET (CreateProcess):

    Google
    MSN

    Google: The MSDN documentation isn't even on the first page
    MSN: It's #1

    Ok, maybe it's just MS documenation where MSN is excelling... Let's try something else (fwrite):

    Google
    MSN

    Ok, #1 is PHP for both, not what I expected, but hey, they're equal.

    Google #2 is also PHO. #3 is opengroup, discussing C. So is #4. #5 is cplusplus.com, discussing C. #6, some .ru, discussing C. #7 cppreference.com, C. #8 more PHP. #9 MATLAB. and #10, more CPP.

    MSN gets PHP (as mentioned) for #1, C++ (cplusplus.com) as #2, and MATLAB as #3. From there on out it's a mixed bag of C and PHP, but most likely what you wanted was in the top 3.

    It's a strange shift, but it seems like Google is starting to lose its edge.

  2. Google prohibits using competition's product by 1tsm3 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The reason google has 100% google use is because they prohibit using the competition's product. So much for their don't be evil! Yahoo messenger is banned, only their half assed GTalk is allowed!

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    -ItsME
  3. Of Course Evil Prefers Evil by WED+Fan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Both of them are evil. Both assist the evil Red Chinese government.

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    Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.