Comments on: Microsoft Thinks It Can Overtake Google WITHOUT Yahoo!

By: Fitness guy

Fitness guy — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:42:07 +0000

I can definately see Vista haveing ads rolling across it..A free version with ads maybe?

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By: David Saunders

David Saunders — Fri, 25 May 2007 14:45:53 +0000

I remember first using G and it was a WOW from the beginning.

I think they need to rebrand the whole thing – the name MSN Search, Windows Live or whatever they concoct next just doesn’t get one by the privates and give you the WOW….

I always thought Mamma was a pretty well branded site and of course Snap….. MSN or whatever ? The name just doesn’t roll well…..

By: Rob Kingston

Rob Kingston — Thu, 24 May 2007 23:31:56 +0000

The fact that google has so much data on its customers means that it has the resources to improve relevancy more than that of MSN or Yahoo.

They’ve also added value in other ways to compliment search, preventing people from switching engines so easily. You’ve got iGoogle, Gmail, Analytics, Google Docs… the list goes on. If Microsoft can knock google off it’s perch in these areas, I MAY consider changing…

By: rick gregory

rick gregory — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:19:14 +0000

Hmmm… slightly better relevancy won’t do it. You have to give people a ‘Wow’ moment. I clearly remember my first time with Google. I’d heard about if in a vendor meeting and thought ‘Yeah, but how much better can it be than Altavista’ which was what I used then. I got back to the office and plugged in a search… and, instead of having to dig through pages of stuff to find things, the first 3 results were all GREAT. Not just a bit better, but actually great. I was stunned – I tried other searches… same thing. The top few results were all FAR FAR better than Altavista. I changed my search bookmark and never looked back.

For MSN to wrest me and millions of others from google I need the same kind of aha moment. If they show a result in position 2 and Google shows it in 5 or 7 and it’s really more relevant to my search… that’s not enough.