Microsoft bribes for Live search - bit-tech.net Forums

Tim S · 19th Mar 2007, 07:30

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/03...r_Live_search/

BlueDemon · 19th Mar 2007, 09:44

This is just... wrong! I sure wouldn't like to be an employee in a company that would require me to use Live Search.

<A88> · 19th Mar 2007, 09:58

I use Live Search mainly because I prefer the site's setup to Google, it's a lot more flexible and has some nifty features. However Microsoft aren't going to catch up until they get the basics right, and I keep finding myself having to revert to Google when Live Search doesn't yield the right results...after all, the biggest part of a search engine is, well, its search engine.

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koola · 19th Mar 2007, 10:16

Live search is franky crap. I use google because it's fast, accurate and has minimal ads.

Having to use a Win OS at work is bad enough, now they want to bribe companies to only use their search engine, please..

Lazlow · 19th Mar 2007, 11:06

I like the idea of getting a corporate company to all use the same search engine, but their method to achieving it I dislike. It makes sense having all employees working from the same search engine - but at the end of the day, it'll be Google.

mikeuk2004 · 19th Mar 2007, 12:05

and once they have domination and knocked google out the market they will then force us to pay for a search engine. 10p a search?

r4tch3t · 19th Mar 2007, 12:41

The only way they can get people to use their search then?
I will always use Google, it gets me what I need quickly and accurately. Every other search is either ad bloated or just plain crap.

DXR_13KE · 19th Mar 2007, 23:17

and another search engine for the list for search engines that i will never use.

Kipman725 · 20th Mar 2007, 20:34

only bit of the live bit I have liked is the sat pics which seem in places to be higher res than google earth and have an ok interface.

19th Mar 2007, 07:30	#1
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19th Mar 2007, 10:16	#4
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19th Mar 2007, 11:06	#5
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19th Mar 2007, 12:41	#7
r4tch3t hmmmm.... Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: New Zealand Posts: 2,884	The only way they can get people to use their search then? I will always use Google, it gets me what I need quickly and accurately. Every other search is either ad bloated or just plain crap. __________________ Fight my Brute The quantum limit of reality might be scaled up because we're all holograms. Obviously. Once more we see that sufficiently advanced physics is indistinguishable from getting really stoned. From here

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