Microsoft is taking aim ...

#1

So it is official, Microsoft has launched it's newest attempt at an
overthrow!

Promises to be better, faster and more powerful. Tested it out, still a few
bugs. Server keeps crashing on me. Check it out if you haven't already.

http://www.live.com

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#2

__/ [ canadafred ] on Wednesday 08 March 2006 14:24 \__

Quote:

So it is official, Microsoft has launched it's newest attempt at an
overthrow!

Promises to be better, faster and more powerful. Tested it out, still a few
bugs. Server keeps crashing on me. Check it out if you haven't already.

http://www.live dot com

To add wood to the fire, below is a snippet on that very same subject,
imported from the Linux advocacy newsgroup:

__/ [ BearItAll ] on Wednesday 08 March 2006 11:10 \__

Quote:

Karen Hill wrote:

Google is about to be netscaped. Live.com, MS new search engine, is
going live tomorrow. The new search will also be nicely bundled into
Vista.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/07/D8G72IJ80.html

Well what an amazing search engine. I opened http://www.live.com and
entered my very first search, because of the topics in here I have just
read I entered,

"linux pda device"

I got one result. Which is great because who needs more than one result in
a search, well thats assuming the result you get is the answer you wanted.

The same search in google brings back 2,220,000 results (more quickly too
as it happens).

Ok, lets try another,

"programming for pdas"

Oh, live.com gives no results. Google gives 3,480,000 results.

I suspect that the people at live.com have a little work yet to do. To help
them, here are some instructions to help them out a bit,

Open
http://www.google.com

Search for,
"how to write a web search engine"

You will get 93,200,000 results.

Is live.com really meant to kick google off it's thrown or is it a joke by
MS. Well it isn't far off April 1st.

#3

John A. <no.john (AT) spammers (DOT) virg.iniaqu.ilter.allowed.com> wrote:

Quote:

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 09:24:31 -0500, "canadafred"
canadian_web (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

So it is official, Microsoft has launched it's newest attempt at an
overthrow!

Promises to be better, faster and more powerful. Tested it out, still a few
bugs. Server keeps crashing on me. Check it out if you haven't already.

http://www.live.com

That scrolling business is a PITA. There's no way I can see to have it
display more results at once, and have you noticed that the URL
changes as you scroll down and then the Back button goes back through
those URLs one at a time?

It also breaks SeaMonkey's Find As You Type feature. All keystrokes to
the page get snagged and tossed into the search term field. A regular
search within the page via the menu doesn't work either unless I view
it without styling.

All in all it's slow and hard to work with. The features they tout at
advances that make search easier actually just make viewing the
results more complicated & needlessly difficult.

It's Microsoft, and all the Microsoft lemmings will trot right up and
feed from the trough, no matter that the trough is a toilet.

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#4

On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 15:24:31 +0100, canadafred <canadian_web (AT) hotmail (DOT) com>
wrote:

Quote:

So it is official, Microsoft has launched it's newest attempt at an
overthrow!

Promises to be better, faster and more powerful. Tested it out, still a
few bugs. Server keeps crashing on me. Check it out if you haven't
already.

http://www.live.com

"loading..." is about all under Opera.

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#5

On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 16:05:13 GMT, John A. wrote:

Quote:

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 09:24:31 -0500, "canadafred"
canadian_web (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

So it is official, Microsoft has launched it's newest attempt at an
overthrow!

Promises to be better, faster and more powerful. Tested it out, still a few
bugs. Server keeps crashing on me. Check it out if you haven't already.

http://www.live.com

All in all it's slow and hard to work with. The features they tout at
advances that make search easier actually just make viewing the
results more complicated & needlessly difficult.

uhuh, nothing impressive at all. Google at the moment does it better.

#6

"Borek" <m.borkowski (AT) delete (DOT) chembuddy.these.com.parts> wrote

Quote:

On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 15:24:31 +0100, canadafred <canadian_web (AT) hotmail (DOT) com
wrote:

So it is official, Microsoft has launched it's newest attempt at an
overthrow!

Promises to be better, faster and more powerful. Tested it out, still a
few bugs. Server keeps crashing on me. Check it out if you haven't
already.

http://www.live.com

"loading..." is about all under Opera.

Best,
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I've been playing around with this new tool all morning and I am one of
those rare Microsoft fans but I must say that I am totally disappointed with
www.live.com . I like the results it is offering me, I'm doing standard
searches but the freakin' thing keeps crashing on me and the scroll bar
concept is driving me nuts. I can't figure out why I can only get maybe the
first 20 or so results. I'm on a dial-up connection and it is extremely
slow, when it works. This morning's news about their "promises" of
outperforming Google with this beta launch kind of leaves me with a bad
taste in my mouth. At this stage, I don't think Google has anything to worry
about, but I've been around long enough to wait and see.

I'm hoping that this beta version is up for serious restructuring before the
Vista upgrade. I think that the average web searcher will be frightfully
discouraged with the layout and performance.

To me, it seems like it almost duplicates MSN results and if that is the
case then MSN outperforms it by a mile.

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#7

On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:42:10 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

Quote:

__/ [ canadafred ] on Wednesday 08 March 2006 14:24 \__

So it is official, Microsoft has launched it's newest attempt at an
overthrow!

Promises to be better, faster and more powerful. Tested it out, still a few
bugs. Server keeps crashing on me. Check it out if you haven't already.

http://www.live dot com

To add wood to the fire, below is a snippet on that very same subject,
imported from the Linux advocacy newsgroup:

Allow me to be one of the first to concede and say it sucks.
What they've done is something Google's already accomplished.
I hate it and don't see surfer "jim" and "Jane" rushing to embrace it any
time soon. I'm quite embarrassed to have defended them for so long. Time
will tell, but I don't see anything coming of this anytime soon.

Roy, you were right. MS as it stands is hanging by a thread if this is to
be their entry back into the "swing of things?".

Their only stance is to cheat and make this a part of Vista in my own
opinion. Something I've predicted for so long yet something underhanded and
cheap. Much like MS is accustomed to behaving as.

[LED quickly scurries back to his corner and cries...boohoo]

#8

"Who Turned Off The Lights?" <Lights (AT) light0987654321 (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:

On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 14:42:10 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

__/ [ canadafred ] on Wednesday 08 March 2006 14:24 \__

So it is official, Microsoft has launched it's newest attempt at an
overthrow!

Promises to be better, faster and more powerful. Tested it out, still a
few
bugs. Server keeps crashing on me. Check it out if you haven't already.

http://www.live dot com

To add wood to the fire, below is a snippet on that very same subject,
imported from the Linux advocacy newsgroup:

Allow me to be one of the first to concede and say it sucks.
What they've done is something Google's already accomplished.
I hate it and don't see surfer "jim" and "Jane" rushing to embrace it any
time soon. I'm quite embarrassed to have defended them for so long. Time
will tell, but I don't see anything coming of this anytime soon.

Roy, you were right. MS as it stands is hanging by a thread if this is to
be their entry back into the "swing of things?".

Their only stance is to cheat and make this a part of Vista in my own
opinion. Something I've predicted for so long yet something underhanded
and
cheap. Much like MS is accustomed to behaving as.

[LED quickly scurries back to his corner and cries...boohoo]

The interface results are horrible! All my browser does is click which is
really annoying. The results are crap too.

#9

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Quote:

So it is official, Microsoft has launched it's newest attempt at an
overthrow!

Promises to be better, faster and more powerful. Tested it out, still
a few bugs. Server keeps crashing on me. Check it out if you haven't
already.

I've tried it and it doesn't work in Opera 8.5. All I get is the logo, a
text entry box, a button graphic, and a 'loading' graphic in page center.
I can enter queries but no results are returned. I'll give it a try later
in firefox 1.5 but i'm not holding much hope for it.

Looks to me like the thing is made with IE browser specific code instead of
something sensible that will work in any broswer.

Microsoft really needs to get off their aversion to valid html

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#10

On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 15:29:39 -0600, Ed
<apostle (AT) REMOVETHISpeculiar (DOT) homeip.net> wrote:

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"canadafred" <canadian_web (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in
news:vOBPf.2123$xM2.145633 (AT) news20 (DOT) bellglobal.com:

So it is official, Microsoft has launched it's newest attempt at an
overthrow!

Promises to be better, faster and more powerful. Tested it out, still
a few bugs. Server keeps crashing on me. Check it out if you haven't
already.

I've tried it and it doesn't work in Opera 8.5. All I get is the logo, a
text entry box, a button graphic, and a 'loading' graphic in page center.
I can enter queries but no results are returned. I'll give it a try later
in firefox 1.5 but i'm not holding much hope for it.

Looks to me like the thing is made with IE browser specific code instead of
something sensible that will work in any broswer.

Microsoft really needs to get off their aversion to valid html

If they keep on this way they really will be making themselves
extinct.

BB
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