Live.com vs. Google.com

Discussion in 'Bing' started by cubsie, Nov 2, 2006.

  1. #1
    Please explain to me what makes my personalized live.com homepage different/better than my Google.com personalized homepage. They each give me the same information (news, email, stocks, etc...). I'm a big fan of Google, but am "willing to experiment" for the right reasons. What are the perks?
     
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  2. Ash

    Ash Peon

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    I haven't tried live. My brother uses Live so i have seen him use it. It don't look too bad but for some reason i just love the simplicity of Google's personalised page.
     
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  3. terryuk

    terryuk Notable Member

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    I use Google to search, but live is showing my website some love :)
     
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    mirturk Active Member

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    Don't give up Google :D
     
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    well i have used both...
    interface of live.com is better...but google personalized homepage is fast...and you can integrate google reader+there are lots of modules which you can add!

    And i guess live.com copied the idea from google's personalized homepage!
     
    invincible.vib, Nov 2, 2006 IP
  6. oseymour

    oseymour Well-Known Member

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    when MSN starts sending traffic to any of my sites...I'll start using their services.....

    PS.....have you checked out the new live local. It has way more detail than google earth
     
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  7. eko

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    I have to say live.com is much more better than the old msn.
    :D
     
    eko, Nov 3, 2006 IP
  8. Robert Allen

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    I am using live.com now.

    I havnt loaded google in the last 2 days

    Rob
     
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  9. eko

    eko Peon

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    thats good but google is just the king and everyone i know of in real life knows what google.;)
     
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  10. marksworld

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    I prefer to use the interface of live.com, its much cleaner and easier to read, especially in IE :).
     
    marksworld, Nov 3, 2006 IP
  11. MrMOJO

    MrMOJO Well-Known Member Affiliate Manager

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    I like the live.com interface. I do use google.com at times, but only for checking for SERP's, PR, LinkPop..etc. (same as I do for Yahoo).

    MSN is (imho) clearly the leader in the innovative and updating in the SE sector at this point.

    Not to mention google appears to have biases based on politics.. sounds odd, actually..it is odd. Not sure why google would do that to themselves and sacrifice business???

    regardless, Live/MSN will hopefully continue to catch up to google. the industry needs a 2 or 3 way tie to keep it honest imo.
     
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    ryan_uk Illustrious Member

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    I finally decided to check out live.com and was happy to see one of my sites is ranking quite well, especially compared to google. :) But otherwise it's not as useful as google (in comparison, google has a lot of great services).
     
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    Live is nice... google is me.
     
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  14. superrichguy

    superrichguy Well-Known Member

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    I use google but Live is really good to my sites, with the keywords on google for one of my sites Im on page 30ish on live Im page 1 number 1 so I am switching to live from now on.....Show me love and I switch...easy as that....haha
     
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    Claudek Well-Known Member

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    Oddly enough, I have found myself moving away from both Live and Google recently and using Yahoo - I had some searches where only Yahoo gave proper answers in the first few pages. Still, I have noticed that the search results from Live are getting better
     
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    google best for me. im using google and google send me daily 1000+ unique hits so i love it.

    Regards,
    Mustafa
     
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    (when clicking 3d view)

    Screw that!
     
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  18. Sohan

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    I was using live.com all day today. The new google earth style thing they have is amazing.
     
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    My opinion...

    Live is loved by webmasters because it lists everyone and their mother's sites on the first page. :rolleyes:

    Google is loved by real web surfers because it provides a simple interface with relevant search results. :)
     
    steveb, Nov 15, 2006 IP
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    moffey Active Member

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    I don't think people will move to Live.com search overnight. Google has a ton of mindshare so users will only move to Live.com if Live.com offers other tangible benefits... but if I were Google, I would be very scared. :)
     
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