Microsoft Crawling Google Results For New Search Engine?

WebProNews ^ | 11.11.04

[js1138]

Bill Gates is no Republican, but Microsoft gave no political contributions and had no Washington lobbiests until the government of Bill Clinton sued them.

[rit]

Not likely. Besides, they still have a long way to go.

msn for "freerepublic" Results 1-15 of about 16,239 containing freerepublic
google for "freerepublic" Results 1-10 of about 2,970,000 for freerepublic

msn     Results 1-15 of about   2,142,700 containing "George W. Bush"
google Results 1-10 of about 12,700,000 for "George W. Bush"

[Sofa King]

You're a bit new to be calling established members of this forum trolls.

[K1avg]

Politics isn't EVERYTHING, you know. I eat Ben and Jerry's because I like the ice cream. I use Google because it's an awesome search engine.

Walter Mossberg is a failure as a person and a columnist. He has no more technological knowledge than my dad (which isn't considerably bad, but not quite enough to understand the cutting edge).

I'd be very, VERY surprised if Microsoft took down Google. Heck, I'd be very surprised if they gave them anything of a fight. M$ won the OS war because they were first and best to market. No matter what innovation they have in their new search engine (WinFS was pretty impressive, though - then it got pulled from Longhorn - blech), Google's already established in the market.

Google will win, and M$'s search engine will have disappeared in a year and folded within three, and you can quote me on that.

[reagandemo]

"Microsoft did not write the original Dos. They purchased at some rediculous price from someone else." True but did you know that when Bill Gates sold it to IBM he did not own it?

[K1avg]

And, oh yes, I'm willing to bet most universities across the country have "more and better Ph.D's" than FreeRepublic, but are you about to blindly say they are more politically apt than us?

Of course not. Argument defeated.

[KwasiOwusu]

Gates contributed $2000 to the Bush-Cheney campaign.
The Google boys on the other hand gave massively to Hanoi John Kerry and the DNC.
Plus Gogle topped themselves by coming up with President Bush's name whenever anyone typed in the words "Pathetic failure" in Google search.
It must be noted that neither Yahoo nor msn search came up with such a result.
Did Gates back Bush because of the "good" outcome of the antitrust case?
Maybe.
Bottom line, Gates backed Bush, and the Google guys were Kerry supporters.

[KwasiOwusu]

"You're a bit new to be calling established members of this forum trolls"


Its an anti-Microsoft piece based on very flimsy evidence.
We get this type of nonsense from the Old Media all the time when it comes to Microsoft.
This post was clearly trolling for Google.
No question about that.
I call it as it is.

[Frank L]

"I'd be very, VERY surprised if Microsoft took down Google. Heck, I'd be very surprised if they gave them anything of a fight. M$ won the OS war because they were first and best to market. No matter what innovation they have in their new search engine (WinFS was pretty impressive, though - then it got pulled from Longhorn - blech), Google's already established in the market."

Need I say more to respond to this than "Netscape"?

[KwasiOwusu]

"And, oh yes, I'm willing to bet most universities across the country have "more and better Ph.D's" than FreeRepublic, but are you about to blindly say they are more politically apt than us? "

No
Because politics is not advanced mathematics.
To write a really great search engine needs some serious Math PHD's.
Its like being a brain surgeon. If you don't have the advanced training and qualifications in neurosurgery, you can't just get up and go open someone's head .
Your argument does not hold water.

[djf]

In 1982 I saw a machine that had most of the components of Windoze 3.1

A "Lisa" by Apple/McIntosh

[K1avg]

Ah, then you missed the point.

The point I was making was: you do not need to have a Ph.D to understand the material, and having a Ph.D doesn't always mean you do.

[KwasiOwusu]

"Are you always like this, or is it PMS?
Take a midol and settle down, sister"

Have you tried following your own advice?
Seems you need it more than I do.
And while you are about it, lay off the booze, will you?

[LouD]

The best search tool is still the meta-search application Copernic. (www.copernic.com)

It comes bundled with other nifty tools, like a summarizer that will produce an accurate summary of any web page, a tracker tool to follow changes on specific websites, and an application to search your own files on your desktop, without uploading details of all your documents, like Google's desktop search tool requires you to do.

It costs $100 or so, but it is absolutely worth it.

[Sofa King]

mhking is a well-known poster around here. You, on the other hand, have been here for little over a month and are accusing him of being a troll because he dared suggest that Microsoft (which isn't exactly right-leaning company) may be doing something slightly underhanded. If I had to pick a troll here, it would be you.

[K1avg]

Personal insults get us nowhere around here.

[KwasiOwusu]

"The point I was making was: you do not need to have a Ph.D to understand the material, and having a Ph.D doesn't always mean you do."

To write serious search engine programming you do.
That's why Google is busy trying to harvest as many math PHD's as they can, and have been in a fight with Microsoft over the past year trying to get the best math PHD's into their company, straight from the universities.

[xrp]

It would have been trolling if the original poster (mhking) had offered anti-Microsoft rhetoric, which he didn't.

He posts, you decide/discuss. Maybe you should back off the accusatory tone vs mhking, one of the most respected members of this forum.

[JoJo Gunn]

You're a moron.

mhking just posted the piece for debate, not because he wrote it.

Are you a shill for Gates, or just an anti-Google troll out to spread anti-Google FUD, sugah?