Microsoft Takes Aim At Google

TiredOfCrap writes "People are underestimating what Microsoft is doing with search technology, says Bill Gates. The head of the software giant told the BBC that its ambition is to be bigger than Google in search. "

Bland ambition?

[TripMaster Monkey]

The head of the software giant told the BBC that its ambition is to be bigger than Google in search

Yeah, and my ambition is to be an astronaut-playboy-robot-vampire that fights crime and plays lead guitar in his own thrash metal band on the weekends, but I don't think my ambition is terribly realistic either.

It'll never catch on...

[Jesselnz]

Telling someone to Microsoft for the answer just doesn't sound the same as googling for it...

Translated:

[Black Parrot]

> People are underestimating what Microsoft is doing with search technology, says Bill Gates. The head of the software giant told the BBC that its ambition is to be bigger than Google in search.

"Whoops, here's another hot application that we didn't see coming."

Good luck...

[butterwise]

As someone much wiser than me once said, "The day Microsoft starts making a product that doesn't suck is the day they start making vacuum cleaners."

Re:It'll never catch on...

[$RANDOMLUSER]

Yeah. Googling for something is to search for it, but microsofting something is, well, lets just say anally painful...

Re:Sounds like Microsoft

[RingDev]

Err yeah, I'm sure the richest man in the world has learned all about how his 'beat the competition' business plans are doomed to fail yet again ;)

-Rick

Censorship

[FidelCatsro]

"its ambition is to be bigger than Google in search. ""
Which was the BBC Censored version of..

Gates: We will take them down and destroy their families and friends ,Google prepare for a smack-down

Ballmer:THEY ARE GOING DOWN ..OH YEAH . Were going to fucking bury them ..BALLMER SMASH BALLMER SMASH

Gates : yeah , See you on RAW .. Google your title reign is over

Ballmer : *Smashes interviewer over the head with a chair* DEVELOPER DEVELOPER DEVELOPER DEVELOPER DEVELOPER.

Prediction?

[e.loser]

"They can do lots of things, but still you can't talk to them, and that is one of the things we will get this decade," he predicted.

Who says I can't talk to my computer?

Re:I Wonder ...

[$RANDOMLUSER]

1) Black helicoptors
2) "Re-education"
3) ???
4) WORLD DOMINATION!!!

Birthday gift

[VincenzoRomano]

So finally we know what William [wikipedia.org] wishes for his 50th birthday.
Hey guys, we need to collect some more dimes for the gift!

True test of Microsoft's search ability...

[nharmon]

When I can go to microsoft.com and search about the problem I'm having with Exchange and get better results than by searching google.com using site:microsoft.com, THEN Microsoft can tell me how great their search engine is.

Until that happens, its all FUD.

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[moviepig.com]

People are underestimating what Microsoft is doing with search technology, says Bill Gates. The head of the software giant told the BBC that its ambition is to be bigger than Google in search.

People are underestimating what Microsoft is doing with [ANY] technology, says Bill Gates. The head of the software giant told [ALL WHO'D LISTEN] that its ambition is to be bigger than [COMPANY X] in [WHATEVER COMPANY X DOES].

Re:This is news?

[Rob the Bold]

That wouldn't be so bad if their preferred method of getting there weren't borrowed from Tanya Harding.

Dear God, NO, not the Bill Gates wedding night video!!!

Re:I Wonder ...

[kryten_nl]

Clippy: Did you mean, you would like an honest comparisson of the Linux-TCO and the "Windows Server 2007"-TCO?

Clippy will redirect you in 5 seconds, unless you click NO

[Yes] [Yup] [OK]

Re:Bigger?

[kryten_nl]

He must have been so satisfied when he had "Windows 95" as a phallic symbol.

Re:Hmmmm

[Kazoo the Clown]

Apparently, none of the top problems in computer science are going to be solved in the United States.

At least not by Microsoft...

Re:Bland ambition?

[Anonymous Coward]

Vi Pirates use Gnome. Emacs Ninjas use KDE.

Re:Bland ambition?

[shotfeel]

If Bill Gates has enough money to create a real vampire then why doesn't he have enough money to make Windows stable?

Considering the role he's played in creating zombie armies, I don't think becoming a blood-sucking creature of the night is too far off.

OTOH, a stable Windows? You think he has supernatural abilities or something?

Oh Yeah?

[thewils]

And I suppose the White Sox are going to win a World Series?

...oh wait...

MSN?

[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds too much like missin'.

Like, missin' alot of data that Google has.

Thank you ladies and gentlemen. I'll be here all week.

Re:Sounds like Microsoft

[stevesliva]

They are not trying to create a better search engine, they are trying to "beat the competition".

Gates continued, "And by beating the competition, we mean exploiting our operating system monopoly to attack their core business by replacing it with alternative functionality bundled with Windows."

So, Bill Gates *is* a robot?

[InsaneLampshade]

Anyone see the similarities between him in that picture, and Kryton?
http://www.javascrypt.com/spike-o-rama/kryton/ [javascrypt.com]

Microsofts evil plan exposed...

[MirrororriM]

"I'm going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to fucking kill Google!" [smh.com.au]

That's how they plan on beating Google. By killing them. The only thing I can't figure out is how to kill a search engine. Perhaps throwing chairs at their fiber backbone? Maybe a few more chairs thrown around in their server farm?

Perhaps now would be a good time for Google to start researching what to do if Steve Ballmer decides to kill you [uncyclopedia.org].

Re:a vision through cataracts (well, he IS aging)

[IGnatius T Foobar]

"We are stronger than ever because we have a research lab in Cambridge, we have one now in China, one in India and that is where the top problems in computer science are going to be solved."

I don't know why they spend so much on these research labs. All of Microsoft's best ideas come from the unofficial Microsoft Research lab in Cupertino, which they don't pay for.

Re:Bland ambition?

[miyako]

as a Vi use who runs KDE and a student of the art of Ninja I find this prejudice extremely disturbing...
I will now cut off your head and then whale on a guitar
Ninja vanish!

Re:This is news?

[fritz1968]

Dear God, NO, not the Bill Gates wedding night video!!!

the longest and worst 30 seconds I ever saw...

Re:Bland ambition?

[Shadow Wrought]

I don't think anyone would want a kilobyte, let a lone a terrabyte, of CowboyNeal pr0n.

It's not a blind ambition

[Spy der Mann]

... for Microsoft to be bigger than Google in SEARCHing.

See, the alchemists have SEARCHED for the Philosopher's stone for centuries.

FINDING, on the other hand... is a very different business!

Re:Bland ambition?

[saintp]

Really, your logic and reason is no match for the speed of a ninja using Emacs. Observe:

1. Ninjas > Pirates
2. Emacs > Vi

Therefore, ninjas use Emacs to quickly eviscerate the enemy (C-x, C-e) and then contemplate rose blossoms and haiku (M-x, contemplate-rose-blossoms-and-haiku). Pirates, on the other hand, use the arcane sequence necessary to go forward a character in Vi (:xwctrvchthulujkimholol!!!) as a sort of passphrase for the secret brotherhood of piracy.

Re:Bland ambition?

[Da_Biz]

Ninja, pffft! We both know that I'm training to be a cage fighter.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374900/quotes [imdb.com]

Re:Bland ambition?

[CreatureComfort]

The chicks, of course.

Re:Bland ambition?

[Opie812]

Yeah, and my ambition is to be an astronaut-playboy-robot-vampire that fights crime and plays lead guitar in his own thrash metal band on the weekends, but I don't think my ambition is terribly realistic either.

Although I bet you aren't sitting on billions and billions and billions of dollars of cash to make it happen. Microsoft is.

Re:Will you just SHUT THE HELL UP?!

[DupeMaster Donkey]

1. Get Mom to buy you subscription to Slashdot so you can get first post.
2. Google topic and link first three returns as "Article is short on details, more info can be found here, here and here. And Zonk sucks."
3. ^_^
4. KARMA!

Re:Hah!

[drinkypoo]

I don't think you used that correctly. To "Microsoft" means to blow something out of your ass.

Nope

[Julian Morrison]

That's "to tubgirl".

Slashback, 2006

[ColaMan]

"Microsoft Takes Aim at Google"...... shoots self in foot.

Mixed metaphor

[tez_h]

This race is a relay race where the Google team is on the 8th relay and Microsoft is still trying to get to relay #1

Well they aren't very fast are they, being an 800 pound gorilla.

...and has its hands somewhat tied.

Oh, and their hands are tied.

The wheels have been set in motion.

A wheelchair race, wih no hands?!

...to the competitive table.

And they have to clear competitive tables?? Be still my beating heart. I think the standard you've set is a little unrealistic.

-Tez

Re:Bland ambition?

[jbo5112]

Now THE browser (for anyone computer literate) is FireFox, the son of Netscape. It's funny how MS can't win. They have no computer tallent, just immorral business aggression.

Re:Bu they never will be...

[Anonymous Coward]

When did Steve (Jobs, I presume) ever prance around proclaiming love for Microsoft?

Try Steve Ballmer, you idiot.