Posted on 11/13/2004 12:42:44 AM PST by Stoat
Sorry but I will go for Google, anytime. I have used Google to find tghe nearest Brazilian Barbecue from my house; directional map to any place in the US; search my hard drive and internet; pictures and images; and when I was still recruiting actively, I used it to search for inactive professionals down to the last skill - and all for free!
Google can even publish your own Blog and that's free again.
Can to compare with anyone else?
Search your hard drive ? How do you do that ?
MS has bitten off more than it can safely chew. Also, don't be surprised to find that their "search engine" does a search of your HD looking for pirated software.
How does a company that ships perennially buggy products continue to stay in business?
Besides, Google is a subsidiary of the NSA and Google searches help the U.S. Government in tracking down who is looking up information on materials and techniques that only terrorists would have an interest in.
Microsoft?
They're still working the bugs out of XP, and their vaunted browser 'Internet Exploder' 6.0.
Feh.
Wow, I don't like the idea of google searching my hard drive.
But... if it's searching through an "order of magnitude" lesser number of pages, of course it'll be faster.
It is incredibly faster than google, I got 9767254 pages in an instant.
I don't like Microsoft, but I don't like Google either (run by raving lefties)
Hmm.
If they want to call it the google killer me thinks many will not use it just because...It's time that Microsoft takes second fiddle....
Step (1) Go to Google.
(Step (2) At the end of the features - click "more" to bring you to the next page.
Step (3) At the bottom you'll see Blogger, Desktop Search.
(Step (4) Select the Deskstop Search which would lead to installation to your PC. Then you can use to search your email, etc.
Happy searching!
Move your secrets to a CD, They should not be in your hard drive anyway.
Hey, Mr. Gates: "Shove it!"
This make no sense whatsoever. If MSC was crawling Google to populate their search engine, at the rate above, it would take something like several hundred years to complete. 878,400 pages/month. One billion pages would take 94 years.
I have a site I use to test google and MS bested google, hands down. It knew how to link the site to relevant information with just a sliver of metadata.
I love geek wars. They lead to great things.
I'm with you. I really don't care for the Google people. I used to be a HotBot guy, but have used Google a lot in the last couple of years. Eons ago, my favorite was Webcrawler.
Smart man.
You think so?
Does look a little weak now, compared with Google...but so did IE2.0
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