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?
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?
But... if it's searching through an "order of magnitude" lesser number of pages, of course it'll be faster.
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....
Hey, Mr. Gates: "Shove it!"
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.
Search engines are good about 'current' pages. But none that I've seen allow searching older files. I'd like an option, for example, to search only web pages that were online between, say, June 1998 and February 2000.
Sometimes I want old info, but most search engines can't search that way. They assume people want newer info only.
And will have the same effects of suppressing quality and invention.
this is a huge thing, and forgive me for sounding silly, a great service to mankind.
without them, the news posting from 20 years ago would not be on line (i like to read my old postings from time to time), and solving IT problems would be much more difficult...
Interesting. I sell high performance auto parts on the web, and my ebay store came up first when I searched for the most popular mustang exhaust system (Borla 140067) on MSN. I am nowhere to be found with a google search.
Sorry, it is probably only interesting to me.
Well I like it. I have made it my default search engine. Go Microsoft! Can't wait until they make a cheap version of Apple's iPod. It's coming! Believe me, it is coming. And within two years, the Microsoft version will be outselling the Apple version by a 10-1 margin.