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Google Lashes Out at IE 7 Search Feature | |
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| Time: 19:06 EST/00:06 GMT | News Source: WinInformant | Posted By: Michael Dragone | ||
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A month ago, Google approached the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and the European Union (EU) to complain about the Internet search feature in Microsoft's upcoming Internet Explorer (IE) 7 Web browser, which Google says unfairly promotes Microsoft's MSN Search service. The tactic, which might be described as tattling if both companies were three-year-old children, is debatable: Google is betting that antitrust regulators at the DOJ and EU will see parallels between IE 7's use of MSN and Microsoft's ignominious defeat of Netscape a decade ago. But Google is a much more powerful and cash-rich company than Netscape ever was. Where does one draw the line between competition and product bundling? | ||
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| #1 By 10022 (69.204.110.203) at 5/1/2006 7:57:52 PM |
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And I want to use my hotmail account with my Google home page- what do you think the odds of that happening are?
Is Google scared? why do they care. I think MSN search (or what ever the hell they are doing on Micorosoft.com now) sucks ass. Please fix this - it is really terrible. They can start by removing the vast majority of legacy crap or have it filtered out with a checkbox option. And why are they doing search on there own webiste like they are trying to search the Internet- cant they orgainze this better so that you can find excatly what you want with out having to sort through it? Try it, do a search for the 2003 SP1 Admin Pack download - why is that not the first link? Do a search for "server 2003 admin pack download" and the first hit is for Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 Release Notes WTF - I want a specific thing! do this search server 2003 admin pack download (site:http://support.microsoft.com/ | site:http://msdn.microsoft.com/ | site:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/ | site:http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/ | site:http://technet2.microsoft.com/) still - not even close (btw this pissed me off last week at work where I needed to get a copy of this from a machine that had no other way of obtaining it - this was a big waste of time!) |
| #2 By 17996 (66.235.19.95) at 5/1/2006 10:57:46 PM |
| Not to mention the fact that IE has included built-in search functionality since at least IE4. Why start complaining now, just because the functionality is easier to use? |
| #3 By 5912 (62.58.60.27) at 5/2/2006 2:10:32 AM |
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If MS where twisting my arm and trying to put my head in the toilet I WOULD be complaining. This is the same exact thing. This post was edited by rnmboon on Tuesday, May 02, 2006 at 02:11. |
| #4 By 3746 (71.19.43.237) at 5/2/2006 8:01:10 AM |
| If you had google set as your primary search in IE 6 or google toolbar loaded it will automaticlaly be the primary one when you load IE7. Plus the fact that you can change the default in two mouse clicks - I think google is being pretty petty here. |
| #5 By 3746 (71.19.43.237) at 5/2/2006 8:03:34 AM |
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Do you complain when you load Firefox or Opera and the default is google search because they have paid for it to be that way? Do you complain when you go to google's web page and you can't search other engines from there? No because that would be stupid and easily recitified by just going to to the search page you want or changing the deafult search in the browsers. This post was edited by kaikara on Tuesday, May 02, 2006 at 08:04. |
| #6 By 32132 (64.180.219.241) at 5/2/2006 11:48:40 AM |
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Thw with and wisdom of the Slashdot crowd:
"If MS where twisting my arm and trying to put my head in the toilet I WOULD be complaining. This is the same exact thing." I would say your head isn't in the toilet, but it is up your ***. |
| #7 By 3653 (68.52.143.149) at 5/2/2006 8:11:53 PM |
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My sentiments were fully captured by bloggers linked off of c|net...
-------------- "If Google actually cared about user choice, they'd have asked the Mozilla Foundation to configure Firefox to prompt you to choose your favorite search engine the first time you ran it. And let's not forget about Safari, where Google is the default and it's very hard for normal people to change that. I don't know about you, but this whole 'user choice' argument smells like a double standard to me." --Jeremy Zawodny "Google needs to quit its whining over Microsoft's plans to include a search box in the new Internet Explorer 7, with MSN Search set as the default. 'We believe users should choose,' is that right? That philosophy didn't suit you well when you started promoting Firefox on your homepage, did it?" --Marketing Pilgrim |
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