MSN search vs. Google

[Interlug]

On Wed, 2006-26-07 at 10:02 -0400, David J Patrick wrote:
> Out of gross curiosity, and prompted by recent news stories that
> indicated MSNs newly expressed disdain for Firefox, I went and gave
> the MSN search thingie a try;
> 
> linux
> 
> 1-10 of 17,265 containing linux (0.02 seconds)
> mostly articles on the REAL TCO and methods of eradicating it.
> funny !
> 
> Google, OTOH
> Results 91 - 100 of about 1,330,000,000 for linux [definition]. (0.05 seconds)
> starting with linux.org
> 
> hmmm.. it took an extra three microseconds to find over 1.3 billion
> hits that MSN overlooked..

Sadly, MSN search (first time I've used it by the way) comes up short
when searching for "criminal monopoly" 

MSN Page 1 of 458,036 results containing criminal monopoly (0.04
seconds)
Google Results 1 - 10 of about 5,660,000 for criminal monopoly. (0.14
seconds) 



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