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- inactive, on 02/03/2008, -1/+106does anyone else find this funny that this is on MSnbc.MSN.com a MS controlled network?
- Truckondo, on 02/03/2008, -10/+52iGoogle home page FTW!
- Hervard, on 02/03/2008, -5/+40Right now, Google is simple and powerful, providing decent search results and useful online tools (Gmail, Docs, Groups, etc).
Microsoft's online presence is a joke, apart from maybe MSN/Live Messenger and Xbox Live. But... Live? Spaces? Oh please.
Yahoo's search results are a letdown and its services are more for entertainment purposes, not for getting stuff done. Pipes? Java games and chatting? Flickr and Answers are cool, but only to a certain degree. Yahoo provides novelty items more than anything.
MSN and Yahoo provide portals to news and other tidbits, unlike Google, which just gives you a search box to help you along your way, keeping it simple, stupid!
I remember when Yahoo was all the rage, but then came along Google. It didn't happen overnight, but it did happen and still is. Perhaps Google will be overthrown one day, but it certainly won't be by Yahoo and/or Microsoft. - LimeParrot, on 02/03/2008, -3/+29Dugg for the Google Fish... ROFL!
- BigBallistix, on 02/03/2008, -1/+16I know! It's so awesome! I've got 4 tabs worth of applets, Digg and reddit are of course on the front. So is wiki gmail and hotmail. So damn useful! When Google achieve world domination, I will happily donate my sperm to their cybernetic car-key finding bots.
- inactive, on 02/03/2008, -3/+17Yeah that's funny, but I guess they're not always regulating. Haha I remember when msnbc was the only news source that gave a poor iphone review. Wonder how this slipped by...
- BingoPower, on 02/03/2008, -1/+13Even if other search engine's got the edge over google (unlikely), google's userbase would remain loyal through all the other API efforts Google has introduced.
That and Google's now a frickin' Verb :) - themoosejuice, on 02/03/2008, -4/+15Nothing lasts forever, but cash in while you can
- kinglenster, on 02/03/2008, -10/+20Yahoo and MSN Search totally suck that is why. They need to delete and start over if they want to rival Google.
- secleinteer, on 02/03/2008, -0/+10about:blank home page FTW!!!
- digitalhippie, on 02/03/2008, -1/+10What MS and Yahoo! need to do is innovate. They are trying to out Google, Google and that simply does not work. They need to focus more on creation rather than destruction. Those are my two cents.
- pw378, on 02/03/2008, -0/+9Microsoft does not want to do search... what they want is the advertising dollars Google is making. If search was a no-profit game, Microsoft wouldn't even be trying.
Microsoft doesn't understand that if you put the product AHEAD of the money, the money will follow.... This is why Google is genius! Money is always secondary to Google, which is why Microsoft will NEVER understand how to compete with them. - skyshock1, on 02/03/2008, -0/+9Actually Yahoo Mail does have a larger userbase than Gmail. Mainly due to Yahoo Mail having been available for so long
- drizzlelicious, on 02/03/2008, -1/+9Now if we can only revert the Digg applet to how it looked like before
- inactive, on 02/03/2008, -5/+13LOL and it's from MSN.
But yeah, it's not that ironic, since MSN only gets its news from other outlets. It doesn't write its own news, otherwise this certainly wouldn't be the headline. - BingoPower, on 02/03/2008, -0/+8http://www.google.com - 6057 bytes
http://www.msn.com - 38050 bytes
http://www.yahoo.com - 118941 bytes
Google FTW - SteveDeGroof, on 02/03/2008, -3/+10Google doesn't have to worry about MS & Yahoo. They're too bogged down by legacy infrastructure to come up with anything even remotely competitive.
What they do need to worry about is a new startup coming out of nowhere. There's nothing more terrifying than couple of college kids nobody's ever heard of, sitting around saying, "you know what'd be really cool..." - djepik, on 02/03/2008, -0/+7For a split second I definitely thought you meant that Bill should invest in a glass repair business!
- TheXuu, on 02/03/2008, -0/+7with a name like BigBalllstix I bet his sperm hasn't found anything other then a shower drain or an old sock.
- bent3d, on 02/03/2008, -7/+14Everyone knows Microsoft sucks and they'll ***** up Yahoo, like they ***** up everything...Here's an idea Bill, why don't you spend some of that 45 billion fixing windows!
- inactive, on 02/03/2008, -0/+7To me Google is king and will remain that way basically for the same reason that Microsoft has the bigger OS market share: inertia.
- naj0rt, on 02/03/2008, -1/+8Microsoft wants the deal approved by regulators so its not surprising msn.com is running a story playing down the effect the take over would have.
- AirRaven, on 02/03/2008, -3/+9>also might I mention i am a commited 360 fanboy but even i use firefox and never touch ms search/yahoo search I haven't opened IE in 2 years...
Put bluntly, who cares? - gamemaker, on 02/03/2008, -0/+6I disagree with this article. Google as a search engine is usable but hardly the pinnacle of what we should have available, in part because they limit functionality because they make millions off the way PageRank works. Why can't I search only hobby sites? Or just sales sites (exclusde reviews and hobbyists) if I want to buy a product? Why can't I sort my search results, say, in the order of most recently modified pages? All these things are functional internally in Google's technology but they choose not to provide better searching because it would break PageRank which is their cash cow.
Internet searching is WIDE open for competition. Whoever makes a better google will make a fortune. - londubh, on 02/03/2008, -0/+6My Yahoo! sucks. iGoogle is much cleaner. I have both.
- kinglenster, on 02/03/2008, -0/+5Every time I use MSN/Yahoo I never find what I'm looking for, just a ton of crappy ads. Then I go back to Google.
- REM333, on 02/03/2008, -0/+5Anyone noticed the tiny AOL fish in the lower left corner?
- jstohler, on 02/03/2008, -0/+5Thank you -- I've been saying this for long time now, but here it goes again: Google has the best search algorithm, period. By combining, Yahoo and MSN aren't suddenly going to be better. They still have to pick one algorithm, and whichever one they pick will still trail Google. How hard is this for MSFT to understand?
- lordmetroid, on 02/03/2008, -1/+6Sooner or later a new competitor with a better services will come into the market. It is inevetable and it is a good thing! It benefits everyone in the long-run.
- inactive, on 02/03/2008, -4/+9Of course Google is going to stay on top of the market, this is not news. Anyone who thinks Microsoft + Yahoo even stands a chance against Google is a fool.
- MioTheGreat, on 02/03/2008, -0/+5http://www.live.com/ ---- (Seems to be giving wrong size info. Interesting)
- Morte42, on 02/03/2008, -4/+9No one uses IE, only retards who barely know how to download firefox or opera.
- inactive, on 02/03/2008, -1/+6search.yahoo.com
- OpticalLiam, on 02/03/2008, -0/+4netvibes is so much better
- jrbrewin, on 02/03/2008, -0/+4first off, you're an ass if you call Microsoft M$... hence why you've already been digged down.
Secondly, live.com may be filtering results for illegal content because it's still very much a legal grey area, resulting which numerous websites being taken to court, at the very least legally threatened. ffs, i get that you're a child, but please try to understand that microsoft have fallen foul of the law many times, and are trying to right-side it for once. Personally, i'd be more worried by google, which can, and does, keep a track of all search activity, and god-knows what else, coupled with the fact that for some reason it DOES link to illegal content, openly. - PhantomTrain, on 02/03/2008, -0/+4I like Yahoo's online offerings more than I do Google's.
But Google search is simple and clean, and I prefer that over Yahoo. MSN's newly remodeled search page isn't that bad though. - inactive, on 02/03/2008, -5/+9No one uses Yahoo! or Live Mail, only retards who barely know how to turn on a computer and open IE.
- jrbrewin, on 02/03/2008, -0/+4the difference being, of course, that google has one main revenue stream, and without that're they dead in the water. One target is much easier to attack than say, all of microsoft's, although google are trying to take that away from them.
ultimately, yahoo+microsoft is a good thing. You may hate microsoft, you may hate yahoo. but the almagamation of them would create much needed competition in the search space and may make google un-beta, or develop new products/services quicker (read, innovate), instead of purchasing every new silicon valley startup they clap their sight on.
remember kids, competition good. monopoly bad. - TomFrost, on 02/03/2008, -0/+4Remember back in the early days, when right next to the search bar on Yahoo, you'd see 'powered by Google'? They were, indeed, business partners until Google split off to do their own thing. I'd really love to know the terms of that and the reason they left -- but I'm sure glad they did.
- TRENT310, on 02/03/2008, -0/+4Wow, I'm surprised it still exists.
- Sinten, on 02/03/2008, -0/+4which is unfortunate as the same user who gets the so called "user error" with msn/yahoo will get the results they want with google
guess which sites receives the hits then? the one that works and doesn't allow errors - voyvf, on 02/03/2008, -0/+3Err, I would not remain loyal to a search engine that was inferior. So, if a better search engine came out, I would use that. Preference of a product does not - some, myself included, might say *should not* - necessarily mean preference to a brand or company.
I mean, if the latest Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo console were to come out, and have all the playability of the ET game for the Atari, only the moronic (re: fanboys of the applicable company) would adopt that latest release as the Next Big Thing™. Everyone else would keep their hard earned cash and spend it on something worth more than the arse of a leprous midget. - smackhero, on 02/03/2008, -0/+3only? you're describing a heck of a lot of people to be using the word "only."
usually you can convert sensible users to drop IE and Live Mail/Yahoo Mail by presenting the benefits of switching to Google services, but most users just use what's immediately available and familiar to them. and there are a lot of novice users who aren't sensible and incredibly adverse to change. - EntropyFan, on 02/03/2008, -0/+3Netscape said the same thing.
So did Novel with NetWare.
It mostly depends on how complacent Google has become. If they are as arrogant and ignorant as most of the posters here, they are going to learn the same lesson the companies I mentioned above did... - vorjay, on 02/03/2008, -0/+3All my 20 something year old friends and my 14 year old brother seems to think xbox360/xbox live is pretty cool. I think you have confused pretentious and whats in vogue with cool. If Microsoft/Yahoo built a "better" mouse trap I would use it over google, but I could careless if it was "cool" or not.
- inactive, on 02/03/2008, -0/+3search.yahoo.com
- MarsSentinel, on 02/03/2008, -0/+3It is not going to be about which search provides the most relevant results. It is going to be about which search filters out the least of what you are looking for. Both MS and Google filter out stuff they or their masters dont want you to see.
- jrbrewin, on 02/03/2008, -0/+3in exactly the same way google were downplaying the way them creating an online advertising monopoly with their take over of doubleclick. omg, how dare business spin the media in such a way! :o
- known, on 02/03/2008, -0/+3Google Page Rank = Wisdom of Crowds
Do you have better implementation than Page Rank? - horrorshow119, on 02/03/2008, -0/+3The market has totally changed since then though. The internet's popularity has soared, and Google has been at the forefront of the surge from the time the growth really started to take off (it even looks like it has helped the internet's rise in popularity by being so simple and easy to use).
The two possibilities that would see Google deposed are that either they do something that annoys everyone, or a better search engine comes out. Fortunately, it will probably be the latter, because Google's solid performance over the past ten years has given them a strong brand loyalty. What self respecting geek would use Altavista? -
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