Microsoft Search

Tue Sep 23 22:42:38 GMT 2003 Microsoft Search

Link: Microsoft goes after Google

I don't doubt that Microsoft has the financial muscle to go after this. What I wonder is whether their inbred sleaziness will cause them to stack the deck in their own favor. Would they return honest search results, or would Linux and Unix matches get pushed down? When they have content on MSN that matches, will that get a boost?

Of course Google has its own biases, but those are of an entirely different nature.

I just can't see trusting Microsoft with this. No doubt in their minds the search results would be honest (I'm sure they justify every sleazy thing they do in their own minds), but my bet is that there would be bias. I wonder how many other people would feel the same way.

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