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Microsoft Crawling Google Results For New Search Engine?
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| 11.11.04
Posted on 11/11/2004 1:35:03 PM PST by mhking
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posted on
11/11/2004 1:35:04 PM PST
by
mhking
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
Just damn.
If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
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posted on
11/11/2004 1:35:23 PM PST
by
mhking
To: mhking
Sounds just like Microsoft. I hope that no one here uses there new service.
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posted on
11/11/2004 1:38:32 PM PST
by
Revel
To: mhking
Despicable behavior, but perhaps legal. Theft of trade secrets? Maybe not--they're publicly available.
I wonder if Google could respond by conditioning their search on the incoming requester's address. Either send garbage, or refuse and log.
To: mhking
To: mhking
I hope I'm not alone in saying, I have no idea what I just read.
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posted on
11/11/2004 1:40:48 PM PST
by
el_chupacabra
(I'm glad you were born.)
To: John Robinson; Jim Robinson
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posted on
11/11/2004 1:41:04 PM PST
by
JoJo Gunn
(More than two lawyers in any Country constitutes a terrorist organization. ©)
To: mhking
Microsoft did not write the original Dos. They purchased at some rediculous price from someone else. They got the idea for windows from someone else too. They stole most of the good features in IE from Netscape. So Microsoft is known for not having original ideas.
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posted on
11/11/2004 1:41:42 PM PST
by
Revel
To: Pearls Before Swine
I doubt it. If they tried that, it would slow Google's famously-quick searches considerably, surely have some bugs and lock out a few users, and take a significant amount of resources to execute.
And, above all that, M$ could just proxy their bot, foiling the whole scheme, and both would be thrown into a game of hide-and-go-seek, which would be counterproductive for BOTH sides.
Typical M$ behavior, IMO, but, AFAIK, technically legal. Oh, well...I'm sticking with Google.
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posted on
11/11/2004 1:41:48 PM PST
by
K1avg
To: el_chupacabra
I hope I'm not alone in saying, I have no idea what I just read.You arent. That was all greek to me..
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posted on
11/11/2004 1:43:59 PM PST
by
cardinal4
(W's 3.5 million pop vote isnt a mandate, but algores .5 million is??)
To: el_chupacabra
Imagine you were going to start a websearch engine service to compete with google. And in order to create your orignal search results database...You just stole the whole database from google. Get the picture now?
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posted on
11/11/2004 1:44:07 PM PST
by
Revel
To: el_chupacabra
Not a problem. Us computer geeks like to use a lot of pseudo-sophisticated terminology to intimidate un-computering types.
In short, the article is saying Microsoft is simply using results from Google to populate its search engine.
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posted on
11/11/2004 1:44:14 PM PST
by
K1avg
To: cardinal4
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posted on
11/11/2004 1:44:29 PM PST
by
Revel
To: cardinal4
To: mhking
Hmmm. I AM NOT a big fan of M$ anymore. That said, I find it a little hard to swallow that M$ would crawl without masking or using a proxy ip. If they did, there was another reason for it.
:O)
P
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posted on
11/11/2004 1:45:02 PM PST
by
papasmurf
(Kerry..." What are you gonna' believe, me, or your own 2 eyes?"..(Groucho Marx))
To: mhking
Microsoft's MSN search engine was using Yahoo! as the underlying database. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft made a deal with Yahoo! to have their database included in the new MSN search engine as a starting point.
Perhaps now the MSN spider is verifying it's own database.
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posted on
11/11/2004 1:45:51 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
To: mhking
The first ad that appeared on my gmail account was for MSN Search.
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posted on
11/11/2004 1:47:22 PM PST
by
js1138
(D*mn, I Missed!)
To: Yo-Yo
Comparative analysis maybe, or or a way of saying "in your face".
:O)
P
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posted on
11/11/2004 1:48:14 PM PST
by
papasmurf
(Kerry..." What are you gonna' believe, me, or your own 2 eyes?"..(Groucho Marx))
To: mhking
Hey, are you a shill for Google or just an anti-Microsoft troll out to spread anti-Microsoft FUD?
Microsoft Research has more and better PHD's than Google will ever have.
Microsoft has been working on its own search engine technology for quite a long time.
Microsoft doesn't need to piggy bank off Google to build a great search engine.
In today's Wall Street Journal, Walter Mossberg did a great review on the beta of the new Microsoft search engine, and rates it better in at least 3 respects than Google, even if Google is still ahead overall for the moment.
Mossberg thinks Microsoft is set to at least give Google the fight of their lives.
Microsoft is a great American company.
I'd back Microsoft against the left wing, Bush-hating Google any day.
To: js1138
Just dont say sploogle or booble to google. They dont like it:-) Dont go to those sites! They have crawlers too, but I dont think it has anything to do with the internet!
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posted on
11/11/2004 1:51:18 PM PST
by
BookaT
(My Cat's Breath smells like Cat Food!)
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