Microsoft, Yahoo!, the merger and Google - Search

re: Microsoft, Yahoo!, the merger and Google - Search

quikboy — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:21:02 GMT

Live Search is fine for the most part. There's only a few times where I've tried Live Searching for something, but the right results didn't show up at all. Though they did on Google. Maybe Live Search could use more users to get the algorithm right.

I also wished Microsoft would do something revolutionary with search. Just simply offering a good search engine won't do. There has to be a reason why anyone should definitely drop Google Search in favor for Live Search.

It's not hard, imagining up search features of the future, and implementing them NOW.

re: Microsoft, Yahoo!, the merger and Google - Search

VasiS — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 04:46:43 GMT

I think Live Image search better than googles image search

PS: Even live search is 90% accurate for me.

re: Microsoft, Yahoo!, the merger and Google - Search

Kip Kniskern — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:56:22 GMT

Just to clarify, Google has not made an offer to buy Yahoo!, hower Eric Schmidt did call Jerry Yang to offer to help Yahoo! thwart Microsoft's offer:

valleywag.com/.../google-offers-to-help-yahoo-thwart-microsoft

re: Microsoft, Yahoo!, the merger and Google - Search

WyzyrdMyrrlyn — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:36:19 GMT

WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

re: Microsoft, Yahoo!, the merger and Google - Search

Mephiles — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 23:03:48 GMT

Google made an offer too?! That's just selfish.

re: Microsoft, Yahoo!, the merger and Google - Search

Chris — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:19:45 GMT

Features aren't everything now, brand awareness and accessiblity are also key factors. Unfortunately this is where Microsoft hasn't been performing.