ABC News: Microsoft says better than Google soon— How many times have we heard this malarkey? It’s ridiculous. Wasn’t the last iteration supposed to be better too?
PARIS (Reuters) – Microsoft
will introduce a search engine better than Google in six months in the United States and Britain followed by Europe, its European president said on Wednesday. “What we’re saying is that in six months’ time we’ll be more relevant in the U.S. market place than Google,” said Neil Holloway, Microsoft president for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
When Microsoft says it will make a product better than another, they mean that they will make a product like another and market it better.
I’m a bit more worried about the entire releasing of it in diffrent parts of the World at diffrent times. I thought this Internet thing was a global thing.
Yes, but Microsoft is still more “evil” than Google. That won’t change.
So it’ll act like Google with more bloatware? Fantastic. The only thing I see better about MS search, surprisingly, they code their search results to be standards and accessible… Google writes annual reports about it, but MS actually did it — which is odd, considering their browser is the scorn of my life.
This reminds me of the Microsoft of old…see a product that is available, announce a “similar but better” product to compete, install first version of inadequate product on the computer as “part of the operating system,” and put the competing company out of business by charging less.
The problem is, Google is free to users, provides relavent results and, unlike Microsoft, knows what running an agile business means.
Microsoft, go back to your core competencies. Spend your efforts creating a useable, stabile and SECURE operating system. Don’t try to be all things to all people. You’ve never been good at it, and we’re getting tired of hearing about it.
What I’m waiting for is a bloody search engine that DOESN’T fill up 3 screens worth of crappy on-line stores trying to sell me their garbage when I do a search for “[insert product name here[ review”.
All you get are pages and pages of sales attempts rather than what I’m looking for, a simple review of whatever product I want to know more about.
“This reminds me of the microsoft of old.”The problem was netscape was free to users and relavent to making your web experiance easy.
But being good is not enough to win the hearts and minds of consumers already dedicated to another standard.
And it doesn’t mean much to the people that M$ has already burned with their overpriced, buggy software.
I only have used MSN recently by accident, typed in a wrong address in the address bar at school and the results it gave me were nothing but attempts to sell me something. Also when I last had IE at home, quite some time ago, I tried to change the search to Google and gave up; didn’t seem to be a way to do it. How many hits is MSN getting simply because of these sort of things? This reminds me of Netscape’s site having the most hits of any site on the internet for a while… simply because most users were too clueless to change their start page!
Milo
Very true.
Netscape Home Page is much better the anything MSN has ever done though. I should say that I have visit MSN .com about 5 or 6 times a year and Netscape a little more.