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If you haven't heard the news, Microsoft has been caught copying Google's search results. I've read a lot of commentary on this (here, here, here, and here), but there are two significant issues that aren't getting much attention.
Microsoft is copying these search results because their browser or their plugin sends peoples searches to Microsoft which I doubt most users realize. Do you sense big brother watching you now? Google also has an eery big brother vibe that has been increasing over time, and it's becoming more pronounced as I'm flooded with ad sense ads related to recent searches I've done. Google knew this story would get a lot of media attention, but by bringing it to light they are reopening the big brother conversation and they won't come out looking good on that front.
The second issue is why they care. Microsoft's bing is clearly an inferior search product, yet it's market share is rising. Some metrics show they they've risen to 29% market share. How does a clearly inferior product accomplish that? Because Bing is the default search engine on new windows computers and many users don't bother changing it. That is the real problem google faces with this issue. Maybe they should start investing in a user friendly desktop operating system.
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and how it's not just something that happens.
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PB: Good morning Uni: morning PB: Hey its been really rough here with deprived sleep so : if I am mean towards you or wrong you in anyway I am sorry Uni: you never are : and why aren't you sleeping? PB: I just realise I
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You could count me as one of those bloggers, that has a hard time commenting because I simply do not want to say the wrong thing. Or my mind needs to write a lot of scattered thoughts first and puzzle them together before I can deliver a whole vivid
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writing about a personal project and trying out formmatting in yakkstr
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from my buddy at the pie shop.
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I feel like I used up all of my tags in the title. A touch happier post, again
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Some specific experiences of the paranormal after the death of my son, who died in a car accident in 2003.
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20:48 Saturday I am shaking my head and chiding myself silently because I am SERIOUSLY trying to come up with other words to describe how I feel, than feeling "blessed" and being very grateful for this feeling. It's ridi
they already are developing one. google wrote android, which is the only rival for iphone and now ipad, and will most likely outdistance apple because android, like microsoft, is platform independant, and iphone os only works on apple hardware and apple partner carriers. even the claim that google made is mostly media driven hype with very little substance, because google does the same thing ms does, captures data from its customer's searches. yahoo, amazon, etc. do that, that's how they generate those 'most searched' lists. the telling factor for that is that it took 'several weeks' for the implanted search site from google to show up in bing. if bing was hijacking google's engine, it would have been immediate. i think this is just a google marketing ploy, keeping their name in the media as 'the good guy' and making ms look bad.