I jumped the gun here just a bit. Damn Slashdot for biased reporting and damn me for believing it without doing just a bit more research.
I noticed that if you click on the "next" link for the MSN results page, you get about 9 million hits: Results 16-30 of about 8898833 containing "linux windows" Ah, well. Sorry for flying off the handle. John Hebert wrote: > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12603 > > Why Microsoft wants to buy - then trash - Google > > Microsoft really, really wants Google. It wants Google for one reason, > namely, to strip it naked and to castrate it. Microsoft wants to put an > end to people being able to use the power of Google, especially as to > the way that we all can use Google as a tool which makes the Internet > particularly useful in helping us all to get through our days without > depending on Microsoft. > > Here's an exercise for all to try. Search Google for Linux Windows That > gets you about 14 million pages, even with the English preference or > filter turned on. Now, got to msn.com and search the Microsoft way for > the same two words. You get exactly 18 pages. The word censorship > doesn't seem to do justice to what Microsoft has done to a msn user who > wants to compare Linux with Windows, does it? > > ... > > It's true. Here are my results: > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=linux+windows&btnG=Google+Search > > > > Searched the web for linux windows. Results 1 - 10 of about > 5,980,000. Search took 0.08 seconds. > > > http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=linux+windows&FORM=SMCRT > > Results 1-15 of about 16 containing "linux windows" > > > Now I'm all for letting business compete with every means legally > available, but this is very disturbing to me. > > John Hebert > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
