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| Thread ID: 40190 | 2003-12-01 03:12:00 | ot: xtra msn search gets "F" | Megaman (344) | Press F1 |
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| 196042 | 2003-12-01 03:12:00 | MSN search gets an f on its report card. e.g www.microsoft.com . couldnt be found. try www.microsoft.com it helpfully said. try again please. hmmmm... | Megaman (344) | ||
| 196043 | 2003-12-01 03:20:00 | old. saw this in dumb terminal ages ago. |
Wilky (776) | ||
| 196044 | 2003-12-01 03:25:00 | start crying | Megaman (344) | ||
| 196045 | 2003-12-01 09:20:00 | Was reading an article on The Register (I think ) that said if you do a search for "Linux" you get about 478 pages but with Google you get about 50mil. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 196046 | 2003-12-01 09:46:00 | > Was reading an article on The Register (I think ) that said if you do a search for "Linux" you get about 478 pages but with Google you get about 50mil. Just tried that: A basic MSN search returns this: Results 1-15 of about 475 containing "linux" An advanced MSN search returns this: Results 1-15 of about 14757209 containing "linux". It is more of a case of knowing how a search engine works and how to get the best out of it. :) |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 196047 | 2003-12-01 10:16:00 | A little bit of maths. That 14mil is still way short of the 50 odd mil on google. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 196048 | 2003-12-01 10:27:00 | > A little bit of maths. That 14mil is still way short > of the 50 odd mil on google. Eat this, from Google: Searched the web for Linux. Results 1 - 10 of about 96,500,000. Search took 0.10 seconds. ;) Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 196049 | 2003-12-01 10:42:00 | That is almost 7 times the msn results. I had not actually tried it but was going by the article. The big thing in the article was that the msn site rated migrating from Linux to MS as #3 which has now changed. Also the USA and UK MSN sites gave different results | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 196050 | 2003-12-02 04:32:00 | Of course the huge numbers discovered don't mean anything. The entries at the bottom end are references to "not very relevant" pages. I have to be keen to look past the first two or three pages of links. Normally, I am adjusting the search keys by then. MSN is probably not bad. It's just that Google is better. :D |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 196051 | 2003-12-02 07:01:00 | Did you ever think the fault might have been in you putting a fullstop a space after the domain? ("www.microsoft.com .") Google would have said the same if it was your default search engine so it's pointless complaining about it. |
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