A Forbes article on search engine wars was worth a laugh today but it was also disturbing.
http://70.177.55.67:1024/projects/dreaming.html Stuff like this will keep people away from Microsoft searches: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/05/07/1751234&mode=thread A search that does not find results is one that does not work, regardless of how easy it is to use or how clever the engineers who made it are. The problem with Microsoft attention is the underhanded part of that attention. It's all fine and good for Bill to be upset and try to build a search engine. What worries me is the way Microsoft does ugly things, like this: http://www.kickassgear.com/Articles/Microsoft.htm With billions to spend, Microsoft can do a lot to break Google. Fake community sites to clutter Google's page rank are right in line with Microsoft marketing techniques which have included the "Apple Switcher" and fake letters to US representatives. I'm sure the "smartest employees [marketing obviously] on the planet" can come up with more devious schemes and have already launched them.
