> 3. grocklaw.org > <http://grocklaw.org/>, EFF, enough said. Well, almost. Microsoft and other > large > publishers are busy pushing through laws that have been well criticized. A > little searching shows how this is the most important issue of all. No > informed person would give money to a company that creates things like the > DMCA. > > If you don't think Microsoft would like to suppress the above information, > just try looking for it on MSN's hand dulled results. Typically, Linux > problems make the list and actual information, such as project web > listings, do not. As Microsoft has in the past tried to sabotage > competitors, I'm sure
Actually, for once I agree with Will. Let's take point 3 here: google for "linux" and count the hits. Now search for "linux" on msn.com. -- Joey Kelly < Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant > http://joeykelly.net "I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous." --- David Bradley, the IBM employee that invented CTRL-ALT-DEL -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20051002/13d86a86/attachment.bin From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Oct 2 11:29:29 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin Trobec) Date: Sun Oct 2 11:29:04 2005 Subject: Microsoft vs. Google; hopefully a reasoned debate was Re: [brlug-general] OpenDocument formats? In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 10/2/05, Joey Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, for once I agree with Will. Let's take point 3 here: google for > "linux" and count the hits. Now search for "linux" on msn.com. > > -- > Joey Kelly > < Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant > > http://joeykelly.net > > "I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous." > --- David Bradley, the IBM employee that invented CTRL-ALT-DEL > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > I'm missing the point here...when I search MSN for linux, the engine even links to Google. How's that for information supression? I've written a search engine before...scoring and ranking results is incredibly complicated. Why is it in this area that Microsoft is expected to know exactly what it's doing, when in all other areas of software development the zealots are saying it sucks. MSN search just blows at this point...I don't think there's reason to read too much into the results. Especially not when you're saying, "well, they don't return the same results as Google, so it must be a conspiracy to control information." It bothers me how much people are bending over for Google. I think what they are doing is a lot more dangerous than Microsoft...they are becoming the defacto standard for what good results of a search are...doesn't anyone else find that just as scary as big, bad MS? Of course, though, the Google CORPORATION obviously has all our best interests at heart, right? I mean, they would NEVER alter their results for profit, huh? Pffft. I'ma go put my tin-foil hat on now, bye.
