{"id":10594,"date":"2006-12-05T02:25:26","date_gmt":"2006-12-04T23:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/05\/microsoft-vs-google-fair-competition\/"},"modified":"2006-12-05T02:25:26","modified_gmt":"2006-12-04T23:25:26","slug":"microsoft-vs-google-fair-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/05\/microsoft-vs-google-fair-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft vs. Google : fair competition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Here is a quote picked up in <a title=\"Changing Climates for Microsoft and Google\" href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/articles\/06\/12\/04\/1519238.shtml\">this thread<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\">Slashdot<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nGoogle searching &#8220;microsoft&#8221;: 39,500,000 results<br \/>\nGoogle searching &#8220;google&#8221;: 52,800,000 results<br \/>\nMSN searching &#8220;microsoft&#8221;: 80,139,835 results<br \/>\nMSN searching &#8220;google&#8221;: 648 results\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I ran the test myself and got slightly different numbers.  Here they are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=microsoft\">&#8220;microsoft&#8221; via Google<\/a> &#8211; 534,000,000 results<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=google\">&#8220;google&#8221; via Google<\/a> &#8211;  782,000,000 results<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/search.live.com\/results.aspx?q=microsoft&#038;mkt=en-us&#038;FORM=LVSP&#038;go.x=0&#038;go.y=0&#038;go=Search\">&#8220;microsoft&#8221; via MSN<\/a> &#8211; 80,461,360 results<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/search.live.com\/results.aspx?q=google&#038;mkt=en-US&#038;form=QBRE&#038;go.x=0&#038;go.y=0&#038;go=Search\">&#8220;google&#8221; via MSN<\/a> &#8211; 751 results<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These results suggest two conclusions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>MSN search results are tainted, and thus are less useful.<\/li>\n<li>Google indexes an order of magnitude more pages, and thus is more useful.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Here is a quote picked up in this thread on Slashdot: Google searching &#8220;microsoft&#8221;: 39,500,000 results Google searching &#8220;google&#8221;: 52,800,000 results MSN searching &#8220;microsoft&#8221;: 80,139,835 results MSN searching &#8220;google&#8221;: 648 results I ran the test myself and got slightly different numbers. Here they are: &#8220;microsoft&#8221; via Google &#8211; 534,000,000 results &#8220;google&#8221; via Google &#8211; 782,000,000 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/12\/05\/microsoft-vs-google-fair-competition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft vs. Google : fair competition?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28997,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/20\/your-site-on-google\/","url_meta":{"origin":10594,"position":0},"title":"Your Site on Google","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"November 20, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's something I've never seen before.\u00a0 When searching for something on Google, I got a new widget \"Your Site on Google\" right above the search results.\u00a0 Erm ... what? 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