And even funnier - search for "Why is Microsoft Windows so expensive?" [bing.com] and the fifth result is a slashdot article entitled: "Why is OSS Commercial Software So Expensive?"!
I assume the search algorithm would replace the words Microsoft and Windows with something generic like Software and Operating System.
When there are more hits for Google and Evil then there could be reasons to rank them high.
None the less, such results should come after a (near) perfect match.
well, it does *now*, everyone's started linking to it in their "why is Bing so biased", and "Bing is rubbish", and "Why Bing isn't biased after all, honest, no really" blog articles.
No, Bing links to a Yahoo answers page in which the actually text of the article contains the search terms several times("Windows" once, "Mac" once, "expensive" once, and Microsoft" twice). The article google returns, while having the same title, is a techradar.com article that doesn't mention windows. The Google results article [techradar.com] and the Bing results article. [yahoo.com] YMMV
No, Bing links to a Yahoo answers page in which the actually text of the article contains the search terms several times("Windows" once, "Mac" once, "expensive" once, and Microsoft" twice).
It looks like the Yahoo answers page [yahoo.com] is actually bashing Microsoft, not Apple.
I am well and truely fed up with Windows and Microsofts global domiantion plans and want to return to mac (I had one years ago before replacing with a PC), but I have been having a look around and even 2nd hand ones are really expensive? If Apple want to cut Microsoft down, they should lower their costs?
If M$ was trying to make themselves look good, I doubt that they would want that to be in their top 10 results.
Have you analyzed the meta tags, picture alts and context of the site itself? If results were as easy as counting words, everyone would have a search engine.
"Looking out of the windows of the expensive Manhattan apartment..." satisfies the query results and seems like MS is deflecting results. The problem is compounded by MS using common nouns like "Windows" or "explorer" or "server" or "word" or "works" for their product names. I search for results on "sql server" and it brings up Oracle's SQL server and the Postgres SQL server and Sybase and all of the others. "Why is SQL Server expensive" could come up with any number of rival software companies simply du
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Surprised, why?
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When there are more hits for Google and Evil then there could be reasons to rank them high.
None the less, such results should come after a (near) perfect match.
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well, it does *now*, everyone's started linking to it in their "why is Bing so biased", and "Bing is rubbish", and "Why Bing isn't biased after all, honest, no really" blog articles.
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No, Bing links to a Yahoo answers page in which the actually text of the article contains the search terms several times("Windows" once, "Mac" once, "expensive" once, and Microsoft" twice).
It looks like the Yahoo answers page [yahoo.com] is actually bashing Microsoft, not Apple.
I am well and truely fed up with Windows and Microsofts global domiantion plans and want to return to mac (I had one years ago before replacing with a PC), but I have been having a look around and even 2nd hand ones are really expensive? If Apple want to cut Microsoft down, they should lower their costs?
If M$ was trying to make themselves look good, I doubt that they would want that to be in their top 10 results.
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"Looking out of the windows of the expensive Manhattan apartment..." satisfies the query results and seems like MS is deflecting results. The problem is compounded by MS using common nouns like "Windows" or "explorer" or "server" or "word" or "works" for their product names. I search for results on "sql server" and it brings up Oracle's SQL server and the Postgres SQL server and Sybase and all of the others. "Why is SQL Server expensive" could come up with any number of rival software companies simply du
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Accidentally moderated this offtopic - stupid scroll wheel on the mouse.
Hmmmm..... I don't suppose that's a Microsoft mouse, it it? Interesting . . .