On Nov 11, 2003, at 10:13, Franki wrote:
Schwartz Avi wrote:
On Nov 11, 2003, at 8:21, Ronald J. Hall wrote:Unfortunately for the Inquirer, the article is wrong. If you run the "Linux Windows" search you get on the first page indeed 'Results 1-15 of about 18 containing "Linux Windows"' but if you click on Next now it changes to 'Results 16-30 of about 8921757 containing "Linux Windows"'. At the same time, Google gives me 'Results 1 - 10 of about 9,370,000'. So the difference is not as big as claimed. How hard was it for the writer to test it out first?
Check it out - very interesting reading.
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12603
Avi
Yes, but its also possible that microsoft tweaked it when the article was released...
It would be very bad press if mainsteam media noticed it and were able to verify...
We just don't know. which means if MS did tweak it, then they got away with it.
Their search sucks but I don't think it is because of bad intentions as much as incompetence. If you search for Windows on MSN you'd expect to see many millions of pages, right. Wrong:
I tried the same with searching for "Windows". MSN initially gave me 2399 results but after many clicks on Next it ended up being only 1069! Google gave me 98,600,000. Can you say MSN sucks? Yes, but that is all you can say about them.
Avi
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