Microsoft To Take On Google

[Hunted]

'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!

[Speed_NYC]

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

[M31]

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

I hope they both destroy each other in the fight.

[nnuxx]

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???....
u see my point...
all monopolies are bad for the consumer

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

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

[RadiationBoy]

yeah freakn m$ that pisses me off

[Esprit]

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

[Nichotin]

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

[~*McoreD*~]

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.

[KingCobra]

Quote:

Monday, April 7, 2003 Posted: 9:35 AM EDT (1335 GMT)
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Yahoo! Inc. is rolling out a souped-up search engine Monday in a bid to supplant its business partner, Google, as the most popular place to find things on the Internet....

Google declined to comment on Yahoo's new search engine....

Yahoo played a vital role in Google's rise. After encouraging Google to create its search engine, Yahoo raised the startup's profile nearly three years ago by licensing Google's software to run the searches on its popular online portal....

According to the industry newsletter, Google handles an average of 112 million searches a day and Yahoo handles about 42 million. Most of Yahoo's results are generated by Google's software.

With its success, Google has introduced other services, such as news and shopping pages, that traverse Yahoo's turf.

To lessen its dependence on Google, Yahoo last month bought search engine specialist Inktomi for $279.5 million. Yahoo plans to incorporate Inktomi's tools in to its search engine by year's end.

SOURCE - http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/interne....ap/index.html