What is the quality of MSN's search engine like? Does it rival that of Google?
Indeed, Microsoft does have the resources to create a very powerful product, but that is often not what is done, as shown by many of their past products.
Then again, I'll use whatever search engine returns the best results, regardless of what prizes they might be offering searchers. The prizes would have to be pretty significant for me to want to put up with what may be lower-quality searches.
Actually it didn't seem that bad. As much as it pains me to say that. I mostly stick with Google from habit now, since their limitations are becomeing more clear. Their about 90 by internet standards, so it is only a matter of time before some younger technology kicks their butt.
It seems that MSN is based off of Google, with a faster update cycle, right now. Though, for my search it mostly returned irrelivent results, though I did that on purpose. Google returns one relevent result on the first page, where MSN did not.
Also the interface is much larger and more elementary (as in school) looking.
Being superficial, I know. I am just waiting for a revolution (as in Yahoo -> Google), and not a minor tweak.
What is the quality of MSN's search like? (Score:4, Insightful)
Indeed, Microsoft does have the resources to create a very powerful product, but that is often not what is done, as shown by many of their past products.
Then again, I'll use whatever search engine returns the best results, regardless of what prizes they might be offering searchers. The prizes would have to be pretty significant for me to want to put up with what may be lower-quality searches.
Re:What is the quality of MSN's search like? (Score:2)
*runs off to MSN.com*
Okay. It does. So there goes my one HUGE excuse for only using Google. Does it have the Blog problem, though?
*quickly wipes cookies and history so no one can see I went to MSN.com*
Re:What is the quality of MSN's search like? (Score:1)
Yes, they're giving away lots of cache! RTFM.
>> "*quickly wipes cookies and history so no one can see I went to MSN.com*"
Re:What is the quality of MSN's search like? (Score:2)
It seems that MSN is based off of Google, with a faster update cycle, right now. Though, for my search it mostly returned irrelivent results, though I did that on purpose. Google returns one relevent result on the first page, where MSN did not.
Also the interface is much larger and more elementary (as in school) looking.
Being superficial, I know. I am just waiting for a revolution (as in Yahoo -> Google), and not a minor tweak.