Yahoo! have this interesting item which seems to indicate Microsoft want to make a move into the Internet searching market:

"We do view Google more and more as a competitor. We believe that we can provide consumers with a better product and a better user experience. That's something that we're actively looking at doing," Bob Visse, director of marketing for Microsoft's MSN Internet services division, said.

I tell you what, it'd take a pretty awesome service before I'd stop use Google. How much better could it get!

heh imagine using MS Search engine.

Search: Anti-trust and Microsoft
Result: No result found

Or

Search: Linux ISO
Result: http://www.microsoft.com/windows

=D =D

yep, I can imagine that microsoft thinks that google is too simple, which I think is infact what makes it so appealing you get and see exactly as much as you need.

yep, I can imagine that microsoft thinks that google is too simple, which I think is infact what makes it so appealing you get and see exactly as much as you need.

hhaha :) Yeah they might even have the "Clippy" assistance type pops up to annoy you :)

Google is the single most used search engine for myself at both work and ourtside work, it would take a HUGE improvement in an alternative for me to move away from Google.

yep, google is the best, they will have a hard time beating it.

I can see it now "Microsoft buy out google"

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Save us!! *sits in the corner and cries*

google rocks.
there's no gimmicks, no advertising and now you can seach for just in Australia :D yay!

Go try and find something on technet or msdn using microsoft's search facility. It is hugely crap. Hugely.

If i've got a microsoft problem I go to google's microsoft site first rather than directly to MS. It's quick, it's simple, it works.

There would be such a nerd uproar if google was microsoftalised, someone would make a new google type thing. for a site as popular as google it's a surprise that there is no one in direct competition with it.

for a site as popular as google it's a surprise that there is no one in direct competition with it.

can you elaborate here? I am sure all the other search engine's haven't all dried up and been swept under the sofa yet.

There is something about google that distinctly sets it apart from other www search websites, I don't care to define what it is about google that makes it so intuitively special, but I haven't seen another search engine that has it.

ah ok, all the extra features and tools that they add onto it, not just the raw searching ability.

there's no gimmicks, no advertising and now you can seach for just in Australia :D yay!

Actually that statement about advertising is wrong. Google does advertise but they do it in a manor which is far more nice and clean than all the other tools wholl just chuck upa big obtrusive banner.

On the right side of your searches there are usually small boxes under the heading: Sponsored Links. Thats their version of adds. Apparently it costs a s***LOAD to get an add there too. Understandable though I guess.

You cant beat google.

The name just owns. MircoGoogle. yerright..

I find the arrogance of MS saying that they can do better than the number one search engine in the world, without having done ANYTHING to back it up pretty breathtaking.

Google has moved beyond search engine, it's now entered contemporary vocab (witness "google" as a verb. I dont know anyone who says "just altavista it, or just yahoo it)

MS hating is old, but it's so typical of their attitude - see somebody else's innovation, bad mouth it, then rip it off.

Just one I'd like to see them shut up and make their better version, and let people judge.

http://www.google.com/microsoft.html

Microsoft have ben googleplexed!!! lol i like it

Google.NET

The day microsoft touched google, is the day i announce jihad!

meh it's just a search engine, they come they go

Does google even have stock? Well

Nope they're not. They're still privately held (sort of -- it got venture capital etc). Unlike other .COM they're actually profitable :)

There's an anti-google site on the web that lists the issues some people have with it. It was mentioned in one of the news papers over the weekend: Google Watch.org.

There's an anti-google site on the web that lists the issues some people have with it. It was mentioned in one of the news papers over the weekend: Google Watch.org.

Yeah you can't please everyone I suppose. But, somehow I'd imagine there'll be even more of these kind of sites if Microsoft ever took over Google :)