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>>>>> "LL" == linuxlingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
LL> "[0]Harry Fletcher writes in [1] The Inquirer about an obvious
LL> discrepancy between searches for "linux windows" on [2]Google
LL> and [3]MSN; the former comes up with [4]almost 9 million hits,
LL> but the latter only comes up with -- wait for it -- [5]16. The
LL> author then speculates on Microsoft's ulterior motives for
LL> their attempted (and failed) purchase of Google." Links
LL> 0. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12603
LL> 1. http://www.theinquirer.net/ 2. http://www.google.com/
LL> 3. http://search.msn.com/
LL> 4. http://www.google.com/search?num=50&q=linux+windows
LL> 5. http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=linux+windows&FORM=SMCRT
Lot of rot, actually. Go to msn.com. Select Advanced Search. enter
[linux windows] (without the [brackets]) and select Find: all the
words. Click on Search:
Results 1-15 of about 8975320 containing "linux windows"
The search the author of that article made is for the STRING "linux
windows" (as opposed to the WORDS linux and windows). If you search
for that string in Google you get some 1M results, not 9M as the
author claims. OK, you still get more than the 16 at MSN, but that's
because MSN returns exactly ``linux windows'' while Google returns
``linux windows'', ``linux, windows'', ``linux+windows'',
``linux-windows'', etc.
Let's not just give the dog a bad name and hang him.
Regards,
- -- Raju
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Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/
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