Does Bing Have Google Running Scared?

suraj.sun alerts us to an anonymous-source story up at the NY Post, not what we would normally consider a leading source of tech news, claiming that Microsoft's introduction of Bing has alarmed Google. "...co-founder Sergey Brin is so rattled by the launch of Microsoft's rival search engine that he has assembled a team of top engineers to work on urgent upgrades to his Web service, The Post has learned. Brin, according to sources..., is himself leading the team of search-engine specialists in an effort to determine how Bing's crucial search algorithm differs from that used by [Google]. 'New search engines have come and gone in the past 10 years, but Bing seems to be of particular interest to Sergey,' said one insider, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The move by Brin is unusual, as it is rare these days for the Google founders to have such hands-on involvement in day-to-day operations at the company, the source added." CNet's coverage of the rumor begins with the NY Post and adds in Search Engine Land's speculation on what the world of search would look like if Yahoo exited the field.

Comments

Re:"Microsoft knows what the consumer wants"

[QuantumG]

WHOOOSH.

Re:Microsoft is doing what it's best at - Marketin

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes. They're a marketing company that has some tech leanings - it's been this way for as long as I've been into computers (the early 80's)

Yeah, and that's why every Linux distro completely ignores things such as SMB, AD, RDP, to name just a few things - they just suck so much [1].

You're a fucking idiot, but you'll get modded up for toeing the Slashbot anti-M$ (anyone remember Twitter?) line.

Oh, and I've been "into" computers since the early 80's too, only, I actually was doing service professionally back then, and have done so ever since, at all levels, ranging from programming to networking, and everything in between, hardware and software. So, you can take the implied appeal to authority, and shove it up your ass: I'm not impressed.

Yours truly,

AC

Notes:
[1] Actually, SMB/CIFS *does* suck, IMHO, and AD isn't nearly as nice as eDirectory, though it certainly is better than OpenLDAP.

Microsoft is a great engineering company.

[tjstork]

You mean the marketing thing they need to do because they're incapable of engineering something good themselves?

Uh, for the longest time, KDE and Gnome both looked a hell of a lot more like Windows 95 than they did Macintosh. Bottom line is, most of the people that bitch about Microsoft's engineering are the losers that claim that their product was better but they were somehow wronged. 9 times out of 10, their product sucked in some area and Microsoft exploited it with, tada, a better product.

Right off the wheel, I would say that if Microsoft is so terrible, why is no one in the FOSS movement able to come up with an IDE consistently as good as Visual Studio?

Why is it that the state of the art in FOSS Office applications still has less features than Office 2000?

Why is it that Windows 3.1 GDI is still an all around better render / print system than just about anything Linux has put out, until Cairo...

Why is it that Linux clones TrueType fonts? If fonts were so easy, why can't FOSS innovate a better font system?

Why is that Linux uses Samba for File / Print? If networking were so easy, one would think Linux would have its own open and unique protocol, and just publish a Windows client driver like Novell did for IPX/SPX based file / print clients. And to think Novell got a client working in DOS...

If Microsoft is such a shoddy company, where's the VB for Linux?

If I look around Linux, the only big thing that's innovative is KDE 4.