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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.
bing isn't infested with useless link agregators which have made google all but useless. with bing i don't have to crawl through the results looking for actual sources of information. i could definately see why google has jumped into action, only a fool would dismiss anything MS does.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
I didn't think a significant number of Americans would be stupid enough to fall for the whole 'Terrorists' thing, but holy smokes, I guess all the Fluoride and Big Macs played a number on their brains.
I guess the question is whether or not the world is stupid enough to fall for an extended Bing marketing campaign, because Americans certainly are.
--Granted, I do feel uneasy deep down inside when I think "Google", but when I think, "Bing", I feel a burning horror very close to the surface.
I have no doubt that a significant number of retarded apes will do whatever the hell Microsoft tells them to do, and I betcha anything there have been tense talks over in Redmond about whether or not to release Windows 7 with an integrated Bing search bar built into the final version. You KNOW that if they thought they could rape you and take your wallet and get away with it, they would. MS is like the Blob from 50's sci-fi. Hungry, smart and without ethics, only a half-assed legal system keeps those fuckers in check. I would much rather have a company which at least attempts to make ethical behavior part of its mission statement.
But in the end, it doesn't matter to me; I know for a fact that I will NEVER knowingly give Microsoft an inch where I don't absolutely have to.
Speaking of which. . . I wonder if the new game system MS is developing where it watches your body language is at all creepy?
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Another MS gimmick where they missed the boat, wait until its too late, come up with an inferior competitor, then hack their OS so it only uses it.. I mean hack IE so that it uses it as the default page. What's next from Redmond, some lame-ass MP3 player thats not as cool as an iPod, BROWN, doesn't work on Macs, and has a gay name?
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We tend not to like IDEs very much.
There's an awful lot of them, to say you don't like then, there's the Qt IDE, Sun's IDE, KDevelop, Anjuta...
Because it doesn't?
Um, look beyond the word processor. The spreadsheet is pretty rough and the Access-clone is terrible.
There: http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html [sourceforge.net]. Or Python / Ruby with Qt / Gtk, depending what you mean by "VB". Or Mono.
Gambas doesn't even match VB 6. And what I mean by VB is an all in one integrated RAD development environment where Forms, Event Handling are built into the one thing. That pretty much means, Gambas...
Oh, and by the way, neither Qt or Gtk have a native grid that matches the grid controls used in Windows. The only Linux GUI kit that has even halfway decent widgets is WxWidgets and it falls short of what you can get out of Win32 native components...although I will say that Wx has a better document / component model than MFC does.
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And this is good for us.
Google is way out of its leage producing all this ultra hyped open source crap: Chrome, Androind, GWT, GoogleGears, Amanda Picture viewer, etc.
The reason why google is doing this is because it is afraid OSS will reimplement a better search engine. So what it does is get on the attack first and try to conquer stuff thats way irrelevant with search engines.
So, yes, google is scared shitless, this is a good thing (TM) and it can go and compete on proper search engine stuff and leave OSS alone. Thanks MS!