Comments on: Microsoft Effort to Best Google Yields Results http://solution.allthingsd.com/20090602/microsoft-effort-to-best-google-yields-results/ from The Wall Street Journal Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:59:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: A Look Back at a Month of Binging http://solution.allthingsd.com/20090602/microsoft-effort-to-best-google-yields-results/comment-page-1/#comment-1531 A Look Back at a Month of Binging Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:47:01 +0000 http://solution.allthingsd.com/20090602/microsoft-effort-to-best-google-yields-results/#comment-1531 [...] | 8:46 AM PT | 0 comments Bing launched just over a month ago, to great fanfare and moderately good reviews. Now, it’s time to see if Microsoft has gotten anything for its massive ad budget and [...] [...] | 8:46 AM PT | 0 comments Bing launched just over a month ago, to great fanfare and moderately good reviews. Now, it’s time to see if Microsoft has gotten anything for its massive ad budget and [...]

]]> By: Dean Baker http://solution.allthingsd.com/20090602/microsoft-effort-to-best-google-yields-results/comment-page-1/#comment-1441 Dean Baker Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:40:54 +0000 http://solution.allthingsd.com/20090602/microsoft-effort-to-best-google-yields-results/#comment-1441 "If DoJ lets them get away with such,..." Ah, yes, Big Brother knows best. Some bureaucrat, behind a desk in DC or Europe, who's sole goal is a bigger pay check –off taxpayers, should be the arbiter of "proper" competition. If businesses collude there are fraud statues to intervene, no other interference in business activity should be tolerated. Any other way, consumers lose. “If DoJ lets them get away with such,…”

Ah, yes, Big Brother knows best. Some bureaucrat, behind a desk in DC or Europe, who’s sole goal is a bigger pay check –off taxpayers, should be the arbiter of “proper” competition. If businesses collude there are fraud statues to intervene, no other interference in business activity should be tolerated. Any other way, consumers lose.

]]> By: Mac Beach http://solution.allthingsd.com/20090602/microsoft-effort-to-best-google-yields-results/comment-page-1/#comment-1439 Mac Beach Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:13:30 +0000 http://solution.allthingsd.com/20090602/microsoft-effort-to-best-google-yields-results/#comment-1439 My guess is that where MS will fall down is on the cost of success in this area. Their maps data was better than Google's for a while, they had aerial photos, but then Google went to the street level. MS had closer satellite data in some spots too, but it often turned out to be older, or only in black and white. MS had a pretty impressive book scanning operation going on there for a while too (also a better interface than Google's) but just as suddenly they got out of it. Online services is such a different paradigm than stamping out laser engraved product activation paper (which is what MS's core business boils down to) that it's hard to imagine them carrying both business models forward. At least not without a serious DoJ look-through. Until there is a true competitor to Windows (and Apple doesn't quite qualify yet) I don't see how MS can afford to be seen as successful in services. If DoJ lets them get away with such, they are surely being paid to look the other way. In fact, this is almost certainly the case. Doesn't seem to be working in Europe though. My guess is that where MS will fall down is on the cost of success in this area. Their maps data was better than Google’s for a while, they had aerial photos, but then Google went to the street level. MS had closer satellite data in some spots too, but it often turned out to be older, or only in black and white. MS had a pretty impressive book scanning operation going on there for a while too (also a better interface than Google’s) but just as suddenly they got out of it.

Online services is such a different paradigm than stamping out laser engraved product activation paper (which is what MS’s core business boils down to) that it’s hard to imagine them carrying both business models forward. At least not without a serious DoJ look-through. Until there is a true competitor to Windows (and Apple doesn’t quite qualify yet) I don’t see how MS can afford to be seen as successful in services. If DoJ lets them get away with such, they are surely being paid to look the other way. In fact, this is almost certainly the case. Doesn’t seem to be working in Europe though.

]]> By: Richard Mitnick http://solution.allthingsd.com/20090602/microsoft-effort-to-best-google-yields-results/comment-page-1/#comment-1438 Richard Mitnick Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:51:05 +0000 http://solution.allthingsd.com/20090602/microsoft-effort-to-best-google-yields-results/#comment-1438 Bing? Really now. Am I missing something? No advanced search? No limiting the domain? No leaving out certian words? Really!! >>RSM Bing? Really now. Am I missing something?

No advanced search? No limiting the domain? No leaving out certian words?

Really!!

>>RSM

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]]> By: Bing: It's cherry-licious | Blog | design mind http://solution.allthingsd.com/20090602/microsoft-effort-to-best-google-yields-results/comment-page-1/#comment-1434 Bing: It's cherry-licious | Blog | design mind Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:48:00 +0000 http://solution.allthingsd.com/20090602/microsoft-effort-to-best-google-yields-results/#comment-1434 [...] Katherine Boehret at WSJ has a write-up on the niceties of Bing, so I won't repeat them here. It does some things different than Google, breaking some ingrained habits, and while there isn't much that's significantly worse, there is quite a bit that is considerably better. The results that come back are somewhat different, sometimes more on target, sometimes not, I'd say the jury's out on that, especially since this is a just-launched service (assuming it's not just a re-skin of Live, I don't know what's under the hood), and assuming it will improve as users contribute with clicks. (Like Google, it lists this blog as the top search when I self-search, so that's a plus.) [...] [...] Katherine Boehret at WSJ has a write-up on the niceties of Bing, so I won’t repeat them here. It does some things different than Google, breaking some ingrained habits, and while there isn’t much that’s significantly worse, there is quite a bit that is considerably better. The results that come back are somewhat different, sometimes more on target, sometimes not, I’d say the jury’s out on that, especially since this is a just-launched service (assuming it’s not just a re-skin of Live, I don’t know what’s under the hood), and assuming it will improve as users contribute with clicks. (Like Google, it lists this blog as the top search when I self-search, so that’s a plus.) [...]

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