Is Microsoft a rival for Google in Searching?
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
No Way! Microsoft published it's beta testing of its own search engine. After a few testing keywords, there is no way this search engine can compete with Google. First of all, way too many useless results. Unlike google returning one result for each domain, MSN search engine keep repeating the same results over and over again, which is a total waste of bandwidth. Second, try to misspell a word such as "human resrces", see what will appear on your screen. Then do a search on Google and see whether you will get a friendly prompt saying "Did you mean 'human resources'?".
I despise Microsoft for their attitude in their efforts to push through "new" product. Money is the main concern for MS. Again, they already lose the battle against other smaller companies like Google. Whenver google publish a new product, no matter how small it is, it's functional and wowed people. The recent Gmail functionality addition to webmail is what MS cannot provide or is not willing to provide for free. MS and Yahoo are pushed by Google's original idea to unhappily increase free webmail space to bigger one which is still comparatively small to users. They never wake up from the whole campaign. Let me give you one example. Microsoft's spokesman said users want better service rather than a simple big space. That's such a political bullcrap. When did google's service disappoint people and how many times Microsoft have? When Yahoo said "according to research shown, most user won't ever use over 100MB email storage", Yahoo also lost the battle against google simply because they trust their instincts of luring customers by science of statistics. By giving user 1GB email storage space, users won't use most of the storage according to Yahoo research, right? Is the space wasted? No. Nobody is still using that dumb database anymore to allocate empty space to people who never use them. Google is well aware of the fact and they still go ahead to offer 1GB, why? Customers like bargains and Google knew they will win the psychological war against webmail giants easily by doing so. Google is smart in so many ways, which makes Yahoo and MSN those giant bureaucratic corporations looks like old mentally challenged people.
What made Yahoo successful is because its innovative way of searching on the Internet. What Yahoo is doing now? Acquiring services from other successful small businesses faster than Yahoo's real capacity to integrate them. No more innovation from Yahoo wowed me for a long time already. On the contrary, Google is full of energy and ready to take any giant. When I wave goodbye to Yahoo and say hello to Google, I hope Google can keep the creative momentum going forever.
