A Better Search Engine than Google from Microsoft
posted by renesse @ 5:14 PM
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Google is not enough for you ? Then wait for the next six months. Microsoft will introduce a search engine better than Google in six months in the United States and Britain followed by Europe, its European president said on Wednesday.
"What we're saying is that in six months' time we'll be more relevant in the U.S. market place than Google," said Neil Holloway, Microsoft president for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
"The quality of our search and the relevance of our search from a solution perspective to the consumer will be more relevant," he told the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit.
"Should we add a Google-like search engine but twice as good hard-core into Windows? Guess what. If we did that, I don't think a company called Google would be very happy," he said.
But being good is not enough to win the hearts and minds of consumers already dedicated to another standard.
Original article from ReutersTechnorati Tags: Google, Microsoft
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"Should we add a Google-like search engine but twice as good hard-core into Windows? Guess what. If we did that, I don't think a company called Google would be very happy," he said.
Holloway sounds like a vacuum cleaner salesman.
Back in real life, Microsoft has screwed up big time over the last few years: even though they had the lead, they lost to Google Maps, Vista is years late and years behind Mac and Linux, Firefox/OpenOffice/Linux are eating away at their market share. Microsoft's ability to even deliver anything technically competitive with Google seems doubtful.
And, in fact, if they could, don't you think they already had?
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