[KwasiOwusu]

"Microsoft has thrown down its guantlet for Search about 10 times now... and they always land with a unimpressive thud"


Heheheheheheheheheheheheheheheh.
Sorry.I just had to laugh at that one.
Practically every time Microsoft has thrown down the gauntlet, they have ended up winning.
There is along list of them....WordPerfect, Lotus, Netscape, Real Networks , even Palm (Microsoft has just overtaken Palm in PDA's), etc etc.

Dream on dude.

[HamiltonJay]

Kwasi,

as someone who has worked in the search engine industry.. trust me, MS has tried to take the search crown many times before... This is hardly their first attempt and they have lost every time...

Someday they might get it right, but forgive me if I yawn and ignore this latest supposed gauntlet.

[Constantine XIII]

The difference here though is that MS can't use their OS monopoly to play dirty pool. They have a less than stellar record when it comes to level playing fields.

Mind you, this is coming from a guy who would live with an abacus and a slide rule rather than touch a Mac. :P