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Google, Microsoft spar over search results quality

Technology Feb. 02, 2011 - 08:45AM JST ( 6 )

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paulinusaFeb. 02, 2011 - 12:43PM JST

“It’s not like we actually copy anything,” Shum said.

Sounds like a guilty statement to me. Google search is still superior.
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MrDogFeb. 02, 2011 - 01:15PM JST

I never use Bing for search. Bing Maps are quite nice though.
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TheBigRiceBowlFeb. 02, 2011 - 03:11PM JST

I don't even use Google, OR Yahoo for my searches. I get much better results from ask.com (which probably uses google or MS technology anyway...)
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Badge213Feb. 02, 2011 - 07:58PM JST

Ah good old altavista...yahoo is shutting that down too soon.
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gonemadFeb. 02, 2011 - 10:03PM JST

This quarrel is fun to follow. I hope it makes users aware of just how much both companies are are spying on the users of their software.
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FadamorFeb. 03, 2011 - 05:33AM JST

Google's search is only superior if I want to get 4000 listings of shady companies re-selling used merchandise. I wanted to get information on how to factory reset a printer last week and Google top-loaded their hits with their paying customers who were selling the printer, then another two pages of other people selling the printer before I got to the first page that actually had something to do with what I wanted to do. Google's bloat makes IE's bloat seem like it's on a starvation diet. If Microsoft really WAS just piggy-backing on Google, then they'd show the same bloat in the Bing engine that Google has, but they don't. Hmmm...