__/ [ canadafred ] on Wednesday 08 March 2006 14:24 \__
> So it is official, Microsoft has launched it's newest attempt at an
> overthrow!
>
> Promises to be better, faster and more powerful. Tested it out, still a few
> bugs. Server keeps crashing on me. Check it out if you haven't already.
>
> http://www.live dot com
To add wood to the fire, below is a snippet on that very same subject,
imported from the Linux advocacy newsgroup:
__/ [ BearItAll ] on Wednesday 08 March 2006 11:10 \__
> Karen Hill wrote:
>
>> Google is about to be netscaped. Live.com, MS new search engine, is
>> going live tomorrow. The new search will also be nicely bundled into
>> Vista.
>>
>> http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/07/D8G72IJ80.html
>
> Well what an amazing search engine. I opened http://www.live.com and
> entered my very first search, because of the topics in here I have just
> read I entered,
>
> "linux pda device"
>
> I got one result. Which is great because who needs more than one result in
> a search, well thats assuming the result you get is the answer you wanted.
>
> The same search in google brings back 2,220,000 results (more quickly too
> as it happens).
>
> Ok, lets try another,
>
> "programming for pdas"
>
> Oh, live.com gives no results. Google gives 3,480,000 results.
>
> I suspect that the people at live.com have a little work yet to do. To help
> them, here are some instructions to help them out a bit,
>
> Open
> http://www.google.com
>
> Search for,
> "how to write a web search engine"
>
> You will get 93,200,000 results.
>
> Is live.com really meant to kick google off it's thrown or is it a joke by
> MS. Well it isn't far off April 1st.
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