Comments on: Who wants to be a millionaire: Google vs MSN

By: Msn news at Kaizenlog

Msn news at Kaizenlog — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 07:46:40 +0000

[...] Comment on Who wants to be a millionaire: Google vs MSN by Mobutu … By Mobutu Ubuntu Sorry, mate, but both search engines yielded little with “dion beebe oscar” as the search keys. Answer is too obtuse and buried. This would be marketing gold to only those who want to put up the “facade” that Microsoft’s search is … Comments for istartedsomething – http://www.istartedsomething.com [...]

By: John

John — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 23:20:57 +0000

@Darcy: They don’t exactly do the same job… Try searching for this for example (and get an idea of the differences): “ibm”, “25km in miles

A few fun facts:
- “vista sucks”: 1.8M Google results vs 1.2M live.com results
- “vista rocks”: 1.9M Google vs 0.7M live.com
- “google sucks”: 3M Google vs 3.1M live.com
- “google rocks”: 8.1M Google vs 1M live.com

And there are quite a few things in Google’s hat that have no equivalent on live.com, example: http://www.google.com/trends?q=google%2Cyahoo%2Cyoutube%2Cmicrosoft&ct ab=0&geo=all&date=all

By: Darcy

Darcy — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:55:00 +0000

If those percentages are correct I’m really surprised. I would of thought Googles market-share would have been much higher, like 60-80%.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 03:52:26 +0000

What are those percentages? Are they market share? If those numbers are right I’m actually really surprised MS has close to 12%; I thought everyone used Google. In my opinion I see little difference between MS search and Google. Google is slightly faster but from a completely non technical stand point they do pretty much the same thing. I use Google out of habit though.

By: Mobutu Ubuntu

Mobutu Ubuntu — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:20:54 +0000

Sorry, mate, but both search engines yielded little with “dion beebe oscar” as the search keys. Answer is too obtuse and buried.

This would be marketing gold to only those who want to put up the “facade” that Microsoft’s search is better than Google. The proof is in the numbers:

As of Nov 12, 2006 it’s 45.6% vs. 11.7. I rest my case.

By: azz0r

azz0r — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:33:16 +0000

Couldnt understand a word of it, terrible audio.

By: Darren

Darren — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:33:26 +0000

Google/MSN it… “Google vs MSN” that will tell you who wins. (Hopefully) You’ll get a result like this: http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061103/fair-browser-review/

By: mrmckeb

mrmckeb — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:07:04 +0000

I think Windows Live Search is a lot better than Google, and equally as fast.

By: Zim

Zim — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 06:34:29 +0000

Maybe the problem was between the chair and the keyboard…
MSN search is slower. I stick with google

By: Trevor

Trevor — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 05:25:49 +0000

Eddie being the usual dick that he is.