Bing Search Tainted By Pro-Microsoft Results 582
bdcny7927 writes "Just as Bing is gaining popularity, some disturbingly pro-Microsoft and anti-Apple search results are rearing their ugly heads. Case in point: a search on Bing for the phrase, 'Why is Windows so expensive?' returned this as the top link: 'Why are Macs so expensive.' That's right. You're not hallucinating."
And? (Score:5, Insightful)
Surprised, why?
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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?"!
Try this : why are macs so awesome?
Top 2:
ALL RESULTS
1-9 of 1,370,000 resultsÂ
1) Why Macs Suck - Funny videos
2) Why are Macs so crap at gaming?
Re:And? (Score:4, Funny)
Also in the results: "Why do macs cost so much" etc....what the hell has cost got to do with it now?
Re:And? (Score:5, Insightful)
What's even more amusing is the first result:
Why are Mac's So Expensive? - Yahoo! Answers
I could care less about whether or not macs are more expensive, or about commercial OSS prices.
I just want accurate results from a search engine.
Re:And? (Score:5, Insightful)
But it's not a search engine, it's a decision engine! It's obviously deciding that Macs and Linux are more expensive than Windows, and tuning the results appropriately!
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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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Re:And? context is not considered (Score:3, Informative)
"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
Re:And? (Score:4, Interesting)
Well, but I had an interesting accident.
I accidentally double clicked my middle mouse button, and searched for: Why is Windows so eWhy is Windows so expensive?xpensive?
I got the "Why are Macs so expensive" as the second result.
Probably that just means that Google is smarter than Bing. When you ask it right, with an English sentence, they know that result is irrelevant. When you ask the same with a bunch of keywords mixed with garbage, they don't filter, and give you that result.
I wouldn't attribute _that_ to malice.
Don't get me wrong, I know MS does all the awful things they can in order to market their stuff, and that their astroturfing might kill sites like this. Just in this case, I think it's just an example of Google being better than Bing, and not result doctoring. It's too easy to spot to be intentional.
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I don't know that it is specifically skewed though.. searching on: Windows is expensive ... gives a lot of results that are negative on windows... I think that the other terms in the context are being compared... "why is" gets dropped out of context, or used literally. "Windows" or "Microsoft Windows" gets injected as an Operating System, and "so expensive" gets injected with expensive/cheap/inexpensive/pricey results, ie those that have a relation to price... so the results are those concerning expensi
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The surprise isn't that Microsoft is doing it, but rather that cio.com is the one calling them on it--a site aimed at upper management. This isn't fanboy-complaining, but business-complaining, something that will hit acceptance of Bing in the corporate environment.
Bingo
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Definitely, since "Nobody ever got fired for specifying Microsoft", as the old saw goes.
Of course, this was before the big financial meltdown, so things might be a bit different now...
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Surprised it took them this long, perhaps.
Microsoft always do this with search engines. They seem to start from the assumption that any query represents a user problem, for which there exists a Microsoft based solution. Looked at that way, a search engine becomes an exercise in derailing the users interest, and redirecting into more profitable channels.
It never seems to occur to them that people might be genuinely interested in results that reflect what they actually want.
And then they wonder why all their search engines fail.
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Obviously it decided that OSX is too expensive.
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But it isn't a search engine, it is the world's first decision enigne. Obviously it decided that OSX is too expensive.
Bing: You search, we decide.
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It never seems to occur to them that people might be genuinely interested in results that reflect what they actually want.
Sounds like the work of a bad programmer. Who else would take a question from a user and assume they know what the user really wants?
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Keep in mind that any loss of profit from Bing can go directly against the company's profit as a whole, as well as the entire cost of Bing being applied to Microsoft's advertising budget. For Micro
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Oh, I'm sure a win-win on one level. On the other hand, if they end up with an engine that no-one uses because they find more satisfying answers to their questions elsewhere ... well, it seems a li
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Surprised it took them this long, perhaps.
Microsoft always do this with search engines. They seem to start from the assumption that any query represents a user problem, for which there exists a Microsoft based solution. Looked at that way, a search engine becomes an exercise in derailing the users interest, and redirecting into more profitable channels.
There is a Microsoft based solution; it just usually involves uninstalling all their products.
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Microsoft always do this with search engines. They seem to start from the assumption that any query represents a user problem, for which there exists a Microsoft based solution. Looked at that way, a search engine becomes an exercise in derailing the users interest, and redirecting into more profitable channels.
That seems like a very interesting way of looking at it. Seriously. I see it in a different way that isn't incompatible with yours, but stresses the issue differently. I'd say something like:
Microsoft has shown a consistent pattern of behavior over the years, that it isn't satisfied to produce any of their products for the revenue generated by that product. Instead they look to have every one of their products reenforce all of their other products.
Pretty much every one of their products interlock with
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Because it leads to distrust. Distrust leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. I sense much distrust in you.
But seriously, it's not just the first link, the entire page is links to articles of why Macs are so expensive. Do that in google and you get Why Windows Vista and Office 2007 are so Expensive [wordpress.com]. And you could argue "Yeah but a Microsoft search engine is not going to say their own software is expensive", but if you google why does google suck [google.com] and you get wh [whydoesgooglesuck.com]
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There's a side by side comparison site - Google and Bing in two frames [blackdog.ie]. Just type in something inflammatory like "OS X beats Windows 7" without the quotes and see what comes up. Google's first is "Mac OS X 10.6 Beats Windows 7 in Amazon Pre-Orders". Bing's first is "Windows 7 Better than Mac OS X Leopard in Security, Says Microsoft COO".
That's not what I asked for.
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There are other "decisions" afoot.... (Score:4, Interesting)
I work for a large bank... suddenly, our mandated IE 7, which used to allow you to add other search engines, now only allows Bing. (in the search bar.. it isn't like they've blocked Google). But it is still quite annoying, and things like this don't get deployed by accident to thousands of employees.
Re:And? (Score:5, Insightful)
Does Google advertise Internet Explorer on Youtube?
Either you're horribly offtopic or you're trying to imply that MS has a right to secretly manipulate search results in their favor (and not in the users favor such as e.g. prioritizing results from the country of which the user resides, google.es provides more spanish results and google.se provides more swedish results). If the latter then your question is irrelevant since this is not about advertisement at all. So either way you fail horribly.
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MS has a right to return whatever results they want with Bing. It's a free service. They have no obligation to serve you impartially. Get over your unfounded sense of entitlement.
Not necessarily. Lying about the product that you're offering your customer is generally considered fraud, which is illegal in many countries. The common expectation (the opinions of technology-oriented people like us aren't considered common) is that a search engine gives results in some generally unbiased manner, and particularly does not hide results that might be critical of the owner of the search engine.
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Does Google advertise Internet Explorer on Youtube?
Advertising is different -- in advertising, there is no implied agreement that the text should be objective and informative. Advertisements do not pose as something, er, academic, and are often headed by a text declaring ADVERTISEMENT.
A search engine, on the other hand, is expected (implicitly trusted) to be fair (re: Google China and other censorship cases). As such, in advertising Chrome, Google doesn't break an implied agreement between parties, the way Bing does. Microsoft's engine is not legally suspect, certainly, but it's also not playing it all out honest.
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That's not analogous at all. Bing is a search engine which is apparently tooled to boost Microsoft's agenda to the detriment of search result quality. Youtube is a website that is merely owned by a company that makes a web browser.
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This article is garbage ... put the same query on the google search and almost the same results come up. Including Why are Macs so Expensive...
You are either delusional or full of crap. They are nothing alike.
... ... ... can save money by buying more advanced parts for a windows computer. Also, they are expensive ... ... If I feel like Sony are charging too much for a Laptop with Windows I can get a ...
... ... ...
This is the result from Bing:
News about Why is Windows so expensive
Why are Mac's So Expensive? - Yahoo! Answers
why so expensive?. - Games for Windows Live
Why are vinyl windows so expensive? who provides them cheapest
Why are vinyl windows so expensive? who provides them cheapest? Find answers to this and many other questions on Trulia Voices, a community for you to find and share local
Why are windows hosting providers so expensive? - Community Server
Community Server is the platform that powers rich blogging, discussions, and sharing web communities.
Why are Macbooks so expensive? - Yahoo! Answers
WikiAnswers - Why are Apple Macs so expensive
Apple and Mac question: Why are Apple Macs so expensive? Macs are no more expensive
Windows Embedded Blog : Why is OSS Commercial Software So Expensive?
Why are Macs so expensive? - TechSpot Troubleshooting
Why are Macs so expensive?
Why are Macs so expensive? techradar.com â" There are some good reasons not to choose a Mac when you
Why fish is so expensive! - Windows Live
This is the result from Google:
Why Windows Vista and Office 2007 are so Expensive  The Firefox
Is Windows getting more expensive? - CNET News
Windows 7 to be âoemore expensiveâ than Vista, XP
Writing on the Wall: Why Windows is so expensive
Why are vinyl windows so expensive? who provides them cheapest
Omfg Vista Is so Expensive - Windows Vista and Windows 7
Why are HDTV wall mounts so expensive?
Why is the IBM thinkpad x301 laptop so expensive with mediocre
Why are Macs so expensive? | News | TechRadar UK
Gizmodo - The World's Most Expensive Copy of Windows XP - XP
I am not sure how you got modded +5 insightful, but the only article in common is the "Why are Macs so expensive?" from TechRadar. Microsoft's results are obviously significantly skewed. I would encourage you to "get the facts"!
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Not really. Ignoring all "news" results, searching Bing for "why is windows so expensive" on the first page I get:
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I put the query on Bing.com and the Mac one was the 7th link... And on google it's the 8th ... I don't see any validity to this ...
Since it's always possible you're right, I put the query on Bing.com and the Mac on was first just like everyone else is seeing. On google it is in fact 8th.
I see no validity to your post. As in, I think you're full of shit.
So what, it's MS's service... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:So what, it's MS's service... (Score:5, Insightful)
It is worth trying it for yourself:
http://www.cuil.com/search?q=Why+is+Windows+so+expensive%3F [cuil.com]
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Why+is+Windows+so+expensive%3F [google.com]
http://www.bing.com/search?q=Why+is+Windows+so+expensive%3F [bing.com]
http://us.ask.com/web?q=Why+is+Windows+so+expensive%3F [ask.com]
http://www.cuil.com/search?q=Why+is+Windows+so+expensive%3F [cuil.com]
http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=Why+is+Windows+so+expensive%3F&kgs=1&kls=0 [altavista.com]
I guess there is no conspiracy at all, just different weights in the ordering algorithm... but hey, it is a cool experiment... unless maybe they are also colluding with CocaCola
http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=why+does+pepsi+sucks%3F&kgs=1&kls=0 [altavista.com]
http://www.bing.com/search?q=why+does+pepsi+sucks%3F&go=&form=QBLH&qs=n [bing.com]
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=why+does+pepsi+sucks%3F&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&fp=CSrKZrhT3_U [google.com]
Don't be Evil (Score:2, Funny)
Shocking.
It seems that Don't be Evil is not the corporate motto of Microsoft.
It makes you appreciate google, despite their mildly objectionable data collection/profiling.
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oh no wait it returns the same 'Why are Macs so expensive.' That's right. You're not hallucinating." article as the 7th link instead of the top
incidently when i tried on bing it was the 3rd result
while there may be many reasons to hate bing, this story is really ;
man doesn't put search in quotes, doesn't get results he was expecting!
the failure is on the part of the user, not the search engine
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For the Mac result:
On bing US, it's the first result. On bing UK, it's the third.
However, seeing as the Mac result mentions Windows in the text, it doesn't surprise me that it shows up in Google's first page.
The difference is, Google shows you what you're actually looking for first (the first 4 results), rather than doing some shenanigans that basically say:
"That's not what you really meant to search for....you're looking for this unrelated thing over here....."
With Bing, 3 of the top 5 results are about w
Not on my bing (Score:3, Informative)
Search string: "Why is Windows so expensive?"
Results:
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Microsoft to offer Family Pack for Windows 7 Home Premium | TalkBack
If so don't PC users ask WHY is Windows so expensive? Cheapest upgrade for Win 7 is 50 and that's temporarily for early adopters (119 later) Snow Leopard is only 29 for all Leopard ...
o talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12354-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=66314&messageID=1250260
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MacNN | Acer: Home Premium is the real Vista
"Hmmm, I'll have to think about that... Why is Windows so expensive?" "That's the Microsoft tax." "Doesn't e v e r y b o d y use Windows?" "Not anymore."
o www.macnn.com/articles/06/10/27/acer.on.windows.vista
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Do you need more than Windows 7 Home Premium? | TalkBack on ZDNet
If so don't PC users ask WHY is Windows so expensive? Cheapest upgrade for Win 7 is 50 and that's temporarily for early adopters (119 later) Snow Leopard is only 29 for all Leopard ...
o talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12354-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=66219&messageID=1249894
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Rittman Mead Consulting Blog Archive Virtually there
I suppose the next thing is to build a Windows VM for the stuff that needs Microsoft Windows (OBI SE-ONE, for example) - but why is Windows so expensive to license? ...
o www.rittmanmead.com/2007/11/21/virtually-there
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PC World Community: Hollywood's Victory Over The Pirate Bay
Why is Windows so expensive to buy in a box, when Dell can buy it in bulk for a couple dollars? How much money does Bill Gates need? What is fair trade? ...
o forums.pcworld.com/message/209250
o Cached page
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PC World Community: Windows XP User: I'm No Thief
At least I think it is. Why is windows so expensive in the first place? They're totally ripping us off!!
o forums.pcworld.com/thread/60075?start=30&tstart=0
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ffextensionguru.wordpress.com - Traffic Details from Alexa
why is windows so expensive; new tab homepage; guru blog; the book of mozilla; mozilla weekly; ie 8 windows update; primo pdf; tabs open relative; flash player updates
o www.alexa.com/siteinfo/ffextensionguru.wordpress.com
Re:Not on my bing (Score:5, Insightful)
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When I searched I got several things like "why are macbooks so expensive", "why are mac's [sic] so expensive" etc.
The article is correct. Bing is just the fox news of search engines. Surprise surprise.
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Hmmm... if you read TFA, apparently these dubious results have a habit of disappearing when someone points them out.
Re:Not on my bing (Score:5, Informative)
You've been marked "informative" but I think the phrase "can't read" is more appropriate. If you Read The Frakking Article, it states that Bing is now returning non-biased results, due to their old biased system being exposed publicly.
Apparently Microsoft programmers did some quick cover-up, like a bunch of 1940s-era Germans digging-up bodies and burning them to hide the evidence. Microsoft was exposed by the media, and now MS is trying to pretend it never happened.
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Given that Google provides results that *are* relevant without the quotes, and bing does not- I'd say that yes, it is in fact Microsoft's fault that their search engine fails to provide the expected results in response to a query.
Putting quotes around something strongly restricts your query- by doing so you don't gain access to sites that may be about the same topic but have slightly different wording. I'd guess that very, very few people regularly enclose their entire queries- especially question-type quer
Yes, but... (Score:3, Funny)
... why are Macs so expensive?
Re:Yes, but... (Score:4, Funny)
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actually, like gold, it's scarcity (natural or artificial), combined with demand.
gold is a pretty useless metal outside of the electronics industry. even when a low reactivity metal is required, platinum is a lot more usefull. the thing with gold is that it's a beutifull metal. only gold, copper and cesium fall outside the white-many shades of grey-black color spectrum, but since copper oxidizes in an ugly brown color and cesium explodes in contact with moisture, gold is the only alternative when you want s
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Pff.. (Score:2)
Is this really news... (Score:2)
This is like saying the boss wont give you a raise if he doesn't have to....really...?
We all know what monster M$ can be, why bother giving us info on stuff we know they do anyways....
like force updates when we dont want them, force uploads of crap even if we say no to the upload...
they control the OS, so unless you go linux, you have no rights on your computer, no say in what goes in or out!
That's why.... (Score:5, Insightful)
That's why I have often taken my car to repair shops that are nothing but repair shops, not gas stations or tire stores or whatever doing car repair on the side. They have to live on the basis of their car repairs, and they are likely to pay attention to that, and if they do bad repairs they will go out of business.
Similarly, Google lives by its search engine, and people at Google know it. There is nothing more important to Google than returning good search results, and if somebody else starts returning better ones Google is in deep trouble.
It won't take much for me to conclude that a search engine operated by somebody like Microsoft or Apple is biased. A biased search engine isn't going to get me the results I want (unless, I guess, I agree with the bias, but in that case I run the risk of learning nothing and simply being confirmed in my ignorance). If Microsoft wants me to use Bing, they're going to have to be extra careful to avoid the appearance of bias.
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Google lives by its search engine, and people at Google know it.
Actually, Google's main source of revenue is AdSense.
We generated 99% of our revenues in 2007 and 97% of our revenues in 2008 from our advertisers.
(from their 2008 annual report [google.com])
Even though the most visible part of Google's activities is the search, I believe the corporate entity (maybe not the brand) would very well survive the demise of their search activity.
Keep that in mind.
I lolled. (Score:2, Interesting)
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What year do you think this is?
(Not News!) (Score:2)
Now try on Google -- the "Why Are Macs So Expensive?" result is there on the first page.
Two different search engines, both returning the same result on the first page about Mac's being expensive. Slightly different order, hardly indicative of tampering, but definitive proof that Mac's are costly!
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Mod entire article down (Score:2, Interesting)
Is there a way to mod the entire article down? That would be a useful feature.
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Vote it down in Firehose
Re:Mod entire article down (Score:5, Informative)
Actually, yes. On the main page, click the minus sign next to the title. You can then pick why you don't like it.
Theoretically if enough people do it, we could kick it back off the front page. That seems unlikely in this case though.
It could get worse (Score:2)
...if MS starts picking on the iPhone app store approval process.
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I think I just missed the entire point of the story.
Microsoft is into lots of enterprises (Score:4, Funny)
For example Expedia. Perhaps travel queries are tainted too. And who knows what else.
My experience has been the opposite (Score:2)
I especially liked how searching for a postcode came up with a link to Streetmap as the first result, rather than MS's Multimap.
Same result is in top ten from Google (Score:2)
Big non-story here... Bing is going to be influenced by a lot of factors, but the same search on Google turns up Bing's top result in it's top ten. I doubt there is any bias going on here... to program such a bias would be impossible (context detection is still difficult to determine, programatically), and skewing the data for specific searches would be impractical.
If we were talking single-word phrases, I might be convinced, but phrases push this conspiracy theory into implausibility.
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Is Bing some kind of other Google? (Score:3, Insightful)
Why would I use another search engine when I can use Google?
I doubt this is on purpose. (Score:2, Funny)
They're just giving preference to yahoo answers (Score:4, Informative)
It's not specifically pro-MS or anti-Apple. It's just that whatever their ranking algorithm is rates yahoo answers as a better source than other sites. Search engines have to weight sites somehow; if all sources of pages were equally good authorities, we'd all still be using altavista.
Some other interesting results... (Score:2, Interesting)
'windows worse than osx' returned top results on how OSX is worse than Window$.
'windows worse than linux' returned a similar 'pro Window$' result.
'windows more vulnerable than linux' did the same
It is fairly blatently pro-M$ in M$ vs. OSx vs. Linux type searches.
Anyone surprised?
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When you search for words, you get hits with words. If you want to search for phrases, put the words in quotes. When I search for the phrase "Windows worse than OSX", I only get one hit on both Google and on Bing -- so it's no surprise that this single site isn't found in all of the hits for pages that contain each of the words "Windows" "worse" "than" "OSX"
Nothing New (Score:2, Interesting)
This is stupid.... (Score:2)
The first page it returns is "Google Wave: Why it's so good and enterprise software is so bad".
Where's the article on this? This is just inane Microsoft bashing that comes off as incredibly petty.
This just in... (Score:2)
Different search engines produce different results. Footage at 11.
This story is pretty lame. Microsoft has been doing an ad campaign on how expensive Macs are. You can likely find lots of pages that mention it and Windows at the same time. The specific story mentioned also appears in a Google search for the same thing.
You remember back when "miserable failure" would return Whitehouse.gov as its first hit? I'm sure that was a conspiracy inside the search results too.
Who is more evil than satan himself (Score:3, Funny)
At least "Who is more evil than Satan himself" [bing.com] search provides accurate and timely information.
I call BS, and so does your mom... (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Boring Story (Score:5, Informative)
Yes, the mac link appears under the google results. However, the other top google results are all about the Windows OS. The bing results has NO results about Windows OS on the first page.
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The bing results also have 5 (I counted) results titled, in one way or another, "why are macs so expensive?" on the front page. Another 5 on the second page... and not one result about why windows is so expensive.
Re:Boring Story (Score:5, Informative)
Hey Slashdot, how about covering the fact that KDE 4.3 [kde.org] was just released today?
Ops. [slashdot.org]
Re:Boring Story (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe he's requesting a dupe?
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There is definitely something fishy going on here.
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6/10 Results are about macs
1/10 Results is about OSS being expensive
1/10 is about Fish being pricey
1/10 is about the cost of vinyl windows
1/10 is about the cost of windows hosting
Google on the other hand returns:
1/10 Results about macs
7/10 Results about windows and MS products
1/10 HDTV mounts are pricey
1/10 Vinyl windows
Thats a bit more than sensationalism imho.
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I dunno.... It might be a bogus story, but so is the concept that Slashdot is here to cover any and all LINUX items of note.
Last I checked, this was supposed to be a tech news site. ("News for Nerds") It never said anywhere that it's about Linux news or promotion, directly. That's just a bias people decided the site had, long ago, when there seemed to be an abnormally large number of Linux or BSD related stories posted - and the comments left encouraged it.
yeah, but.... (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/apple/why-are-macs-so-expensive--609128
Re:yeah, but.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes. One out of the rest of the front page.
Bing has one *real* result out of the rest of the front page, which is a bit of a difference...
Re:yeah, but.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Try these queries on Google:
"why does chrome suck"
"why does google suck"
"why does android suck"
Not one mention of Microsoft or Apple. You get what you asked for.
Re:yeah, but.... (Score:4, Funny)
Stop introducing facts into this discussion. We're here to bash Microsoft.
Re:query "why windows sucks" (Score:4, Interesting)
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Given the wealth and power involved, did you really expect them to respect fair play?
Google does. The only reason Microsoft can't is its long standing corporate greed; the same kind of greed that will have a monkey stick his hand in a jar for a treat, and since he won't let go of the treat and his fist won't fit through the jar's neck, he's stuck.
That's proably why (IMO, YMMV) their software sucks so badly. This is what I expected from bing and I'm surprised that anybody else was surprised.
I also wasn't sur
Re:Troll (Score:5, Insightful)
TFA states that they stopped doing it. He screencapped his results, but it's not surprising that you don't see it now.
At least.. for now.. with those search queries..
But can you trust them to give honest results later on when the heat is off again?