Commericial - The New MSN

msn is just a flash in the pan as far as I'm concerned. I don't think they have what it takes to supplant google as the top SE. It's seems pretty clear that their algo is going to be easy to 'beat' and the spammers will have a field day with them once they are worth the effort. I'm not a die hard google fan, but I am a die hard microsoft detractor.

 

Odd, I never saw the commercial play during the game. Great game though.. Nice to see the Eagles get trounced on.

 

Would you not agree though, that in any type business the man with the money makes the rules. I dont see google able to keep up with the marketing giant MS has. Also MSN will offer this product to a larger percentage of the public than google ever could. Google is only known by name as is MS, with both of those factors being equal, IMHO the company that can take that extra step, is the one that will come out on top. Hence MSN should take a larger portion from google in these search engine wars.

 

If Google was to get their act together and continuosly improve, you wouldnt see MSN even touch them.

The past is littered with examples where money didn't win out. Now combine money and a better product and you have something.

 

I agree with yfs1 [put and X in that square]

Just becuase ms has money (google does as well) does not mean they can do it better.

 

Although the fact that Microsoft has such a great security track record and is every product is welcomed with open arms, mopac might be wrong.

//end sarcasm

Google is hated by webmasters and seo's while Microsoft is hated by the users. Who do you think goes further to deciding who wins out

 

There are a lot more users than there are webmasters

 

well I have hope for MSN but I still think users will always love google
webmasters are the ones trying to leave

 

When was the last time you heard someone say "grunge rock?, oh just do a msn for it?"

Usually it is "oh, just do a Google for it."

Seems a bit more common..

 

MSN search will be integrated with Longhorn or whatever the next OS/Office integrated bundle is named. I don't think it will go away anytime soon.

 

But what happens if there is some legal battle claiming that it is illegal to bundle search into the operating system

Fat chance on that one ...

 

Sure Microsoft has a lot of money, but they also have a LOT of different products to promote and support. Google has a lot of money as well and can focus on spending money being the best search engine.

Btw, I'm a webmaster and I love Google (and really dislike Microsoft)!!

We'll see what this year holds.

 

It's not like Google only does "search". They are into a lot of different products/services as well.

 

But it is their 'core' service.. it's not like that for MSN.

 

All I know is my traffic is up big time since the last msnbot crawl. MSN is now accounting for about 50% of my traffic. Google, froogle, yahoo together don't send as much as MSN. At least not yet.

 

I'd have to agree. I have seen the same.

 

Interesting you're using IIS when you dislike MS so much :-P (if the site in your siggy is your site)

About the legal battle if MS implements search into the OS... theres been a legal battle because of Windows Media Player in Europe as well and they had to publish Win XP without WMP but nobody wants to buy that version. That just shows once more that users don't care if their windows comes with WMP or without. Everyone can still use other players and if MSN is the standard search in Windows everyone can still use Google or whatever.

 

True, the only reason is that Coldfusion is what I program in and generally it's installed on Win(d|bl)ows servers Mind you, I'd love to swap it over to an Apache server. And don't worry, the coding is done on a Powerbook G4.