[mhking]

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

[Revel]

Sounds just like Microsoft. I hope that no one here uses there new service.

[Pearls Before Swine]

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.

[el_chupacabra]

I hope I'm not alone in saying, I have no idea what I just read.

[JoJo Gunn]

bump

[papasmurf]

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

[Yo-Yo]

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.

[js1138]

The first ad that appeared on my gmail account was for MSN Search.

[KwasiOwusu]

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.

[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"

[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.

[MCH]

Said in my best little-kid voice...

Microsoft is a copy cat!
Microsoft is a copy cat!
Microsoft is a copy cat!

[KwasiOwusu]

Everyone,
I clearly started of on the wrong foot on this one.
Too many heated words.
I have to apologize to anyone I have offended in this thread.
I am off to have my dinner, a bit wiser than i was this morning I hope.

[jpsb]

207.46.98.72 - - [07/Nov/2004:05:20:31 -0600] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 311
207.46.98.72 - - [07/Nov/2004:05:20:34 -0600] "GET /joms/servlet/sItem?itemId=2069&classId=2B HTTP/1.0" 500 634
207.46.98.72 - - [07/Nov/2004:05:53:56 -0600] "GET /joms/servlet/sItem?itemId=1234&classId=2B HTTP/1.0" 404 722
207.46.98.72 - - [07/Nov/2004:06:03:48 -0600] "GET /joms/servlet/sItemInfo?itemId=1062&classId=2B HTTP/1.0" 500 634
207.46.98.72 - - [07/Nov/2004:06:21:34 -0600] "GET /joms/servlet/sItemInfo?itemId=2070&classId=2B HTTP/1.0" 404 734
207.46.98.72 - - [07/Nov/2004:06:23:30 -0600] "GET /joms/servlet/sItemInfo?itemId=1145&classId=2B HTTP/1.0" 500 634
207.46.98.72 - - [07/Nov/2004:06:27:09 -0600] "GET /joms/servlet/sItemInfo?itemId=1122&classId=2B HTTP/1.0" 404 734
207.46.98.72 - - [07/Nov/2004:06:30:38 -0600] "GET /joms/servlet/sItemInfo?itemId=1050&classId=2B HTTP/1.0" 500 634
207.46.98.72 - - [07/Nov/2004:06:32:47 -0600] "GET /joms/servlet/sItemInfo?itemId=2069&classId=2B HTTP/1.0" 404 734
207.46.98.72 - - [07/Nov/2004:06:34:01 -0600] "GET /joms/servlet/sItemInfo?itemId=1037&classId=2B HTTP/1.0" 500 634
207.46.98.72 - - [07/Nov/2004:06:35:48 -0600] "GET /joms/servlet/sItem?itemId=2054&classId=2B HTTP/1.0" 404 722
207.46.98.72 - - [07/Nov/2004:06:38:28 -0600] "GET /joms/servlet/sItem?itemId=1251&classId=2B HTTP/1.0" 500 634
207.46.98.72 - - [07/Nov/2004:06:41:50 -0600] "GET /joms/servlet/sItem?itemId=1122&classId=2B HTTP/1.0" 404 722
207.46.98.72 - - [07/Nov/2004:06:43:43 -0600] "GET /joms/servlet/sItem?itemId=1062&classId=2B HTTP/1.0" 500 634
Lot's more skipped

The joms servlet was something I worked on a while back and took of the site 3/60days ago. This the kind of info you are looking for?

[antaresequity]

Screw Google...nest of liberal scum...love it

[Pharmboy]

He lost me at "I."

[expatguy]

bttt

[montag813]

GOOGLE CAN GO TO HELL. THEY REFUSED TO ALTER THEIR LOGO TODAY IN HONOR OF VETERANS DAY, EVEN THOUGH THEY ROUTINELY CHANGE IT FOR NON-HOLIDAYS LIKE FRANCE'S BASTILE DAY AND "EARTH DAY". LET THEM KNOW YOU ARE PISSED OFF AT THEIR UTTER CONTEMPT FOR AMERICA'S BRAVE VETERANS!!!