Will, You are boring me with your paranoid explanation of Microsoft's fear of Google due to "information suppression". Sure, on some miniscule level, Microsoft would like to influence what people think about Microsoft, but any business does that. And sure, Microsoft does it more than others (although I don't think they spend billions on it).
HOWEVER, you are wrong wrong wrong if you think it ends there. What Microsoft fears most is what the Sun-Google announcement today was all about: software being delivered via the Web. What Microsoft fears is that PC operating systems are meaning less and the Web means more as time goes on. That being said, you have the freedom to think and say what you want, just as I have the freedom to call you an uninformed paranoid. Ain't freedom grand? ;) You can carry on if you wish. I'm gonna go play some IronStorm (on my new schweet Dell laptop running WinXP no less). John Hebert On 10/3/05, Will Hill <williamhill2 at cox.net> wrote: > > Getting good search results is difficult but handing out bad ones is easy. > Microsoft does not have to be a competent search engine maker to rank > wintel > rags high in their results, or filter articles with the word "freedom". > > People like Google because, as the Microsoftie in charge of building the > MSN > search explained in 2002 (paraphrased by Forbes): > > "Google was developing a great search engine, and how its minimalist > design > and consistently relevant results-better than those delivered by MSN's > cluttered site-were attracting legions of Internet users." > > > http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,1050065-6,00.html > > That is the point. > > The other point is that Microsoft has been up to all of it's usual > anti-competitive tricks ever since they realized there was money in > search. > Those tricks include badmouthing of the "Google is teh evil" type. I'm > working through others at John's request. > > On Sunday 02 October 2005 11:29 am, Justin Trobec wrote: > > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20051004/780bc993/attachment.htm
