'Microsoft, the world's No. 1 software maker, says it is taking aim at privately held Google, the Web-search company that's so popular its name is used as a verb. "We do view Google more and more as a competitor. We believe that we can provide consumers with a better product and a better user experience. That's something that we're actively looking at doing," Bob Visse, director of marketing for Microsoft's MSN Internet services division, said. Visse said the company was making some significant investments in developing a better search engine. But the company has not offered specific plans. Microsoft would not be the first Web portal provider to step into the Web search segment. Last month, Internet media company Yahoo closed its $235 million (150 million pounds) purchase of Internet-search company Inktomi. Microsoft has said its been searching for ways to capitalise on its various technologies, for example data retrieval and analysis, by entering new markets. It has also targeted security software. Google, the No. 1 Web-search provider, has become so pervasive that it is not uncommon for people to refer to searching the Internet as "googling". A Google representative could not be immediately reached for comment.'

Source: Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...toryID=2497128

Those sons a b%tches always trying to monopolize everything. They will never learn.. It will cost them one way or another!

If M$ succeeds...there goes the neighborhood!

The M $oft money grabbers and that nasty Google cookie.

I hope they both destroy each other in the fight.

all good things cames to an end.... :(

imagine looking for something like "games" on a search engine owned by M$...
wich links do u think it would show right on top of results?!?... <_<
i wonder... would it show ANY other good links AT ALL???.... :blink:
u see my point... :unsure:
all monopolies are bad for the consumer :(

or better... imagine looking for a patch.. [*cof*...(crack)*cof*] on a microsoft's search engine... LOL :D

someday maybe M$ will declare an open war against Saddam also... :S

yeah freakn m$ that pisses me off

I suppose Astalavista will be their next conquest.!!!!

i wonder what they would do with the warez sites that the search engine detects

I am confused. Microsoft won't stop Google will they. All they are gonna do is, try(hard) to make a better search engine. That's what I understood.

let the games begin :D

let's see what mr. Inktomi does for them... ;) and us... :P

They have already a search machine mcored and nobody uses that one.Lets them to improve their machine and let the google in its peacefull.All they want to do is to control the results and send the people to the paths they want to send them.I mean most of the searches i m doing in google the result i want is in the first or in the second place.Try the same with msn and u will see what is happening.

Well all the infighting amongst themselves leaves us alone a tad longer but I hate the thought of one company monopolizing that corner as said it would send you to the spots they wanted you to go to or the spots who paid them the most to have the traffic.:(