HMM, no conspiracy after all.
It seems like it may not be a conspiracy after all. Here are some searches I did followed by the resulting number of hits. Search Result ------ ------- mac OS x 48 windows xp 279 Linux 365 windows f*cking sucks 40464 bill gates genius 43093 Conclusion: The msn search engine may actually suck that badly! From: Arturo Sedo <postgres@sedo.net> To: WLUG <wlug@mail.wlug.org>, arturo_sedo@raytheon.com Subject: Interesting slashdot article. I didn't think it would be true. It was! Date: 16 Nov 2003 22:55:02 -0500 Here's an exercise for all to try. Search Google for Linux Windows. That gets you about 14 million pages, even with the English preference or filter turned on. Now, go to msn.com and search the Microsoft way for the same two words. You get exactly 18 pages. The word censorship doesn't seem to do justice to what Microsoft has done to a msn user who wants to compare Linux with Windows, does it? According to an MSN's Internet search, the word linux only appears 365 documents. In the entire internet! No wonder they wanted to buy google. Arturo -- Arturo Sedo <postgres@sedo.net>
On Monday 17 November 2003 12:03 am, Arturo Sedo wrote:
It seems like it may not be a conspiracy after all.
Try the advanced search with all words and see how many hits you find. Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org
It seems like it may not be a conspiracy after all.
In a search engine my personal preference is for quality of results rather then quantity. If what I am looking for shows up on the first page I'm happy... who wants to wade through a few million results any how. :-) So, try a search of - linux apache - on msn.com and notice that the first six results are about the slapper worm. Hmm...
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