[plug] Aint it the truth !

[Denis Brown]

At 09:44 12/11/2003 +0800, Kai wrote:
>I think this is on topic enough not to post to off-topic.
>http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=12603

(Link refers to MS wanting to buy Google with intention to knobble it, thus 
reducing the availability of Linux-related material on the web.   Compared 
searching for "Linux Windows" in Google vs MSN, with MSN managing only 18 
hits.)

Nah.. I think MSN's just dumbed-down full stop.   Try searching for pretty 
much anything - either their search bots aren't up to it or there's some 
other reason the number of hits just doesn't measure up.   My section at 
UWA does research work in various drugs... search "naltrexone" on MSN gives 
16672 whereas Google chimed in with 87500.   I thought it might be some 
sort of "net nanny" effect but try "australia" and you'll see 40 million 
plus for Google, 1727 - that is NOT a typo - for MSN.

Linux-related queries such as "linux howto" and "linux security" brought 
forth a few responses but not the flood you get from Google.   So people 
sufficiently determined to check out Linux, albeit from MSN, do have a 
faint chance :-)

Shrug,
Denis



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