Search Engine War : MS Vs. Google Vs. Yahoo!

Any takers?

Back in 1994-95, Yahoo, Lycos & Infoseek dominated the search market. Well, old folks are still making rounds while the new players (Google) emerged! On December 23, 2002 Yahoo announced that it would buy Inktomy ($235 million) marking the start of search engine war.

Yahoo denies it, but the biggest threat today to it comes from Google. I've also heard about Microsoft combining seach capabilities with its new OS. Microsoft openly admits that Google is their rival #1 in internet search market. Well, they did come up with MSN Beta Search last year, but it failed to gain popularity.

Well, my vote is for google ๐Ÿ˜€

What about you?

Replies

  • Anil Jain
    Anil Jain
    GOOGLE

    No Doubt
    GOOGLE IS THE BEST...
    No competation with Yahoo! or Lycos! Altavista! no way near to MSN BETA!
    Google is far better than these search engines...in my openion........


    chears
    Crazy :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :evil: :evil: :evil:
  • Kaustubh Katdare
    Kaustubh Katdare
    Is this discussion kinda biased towards Google ๐Ÿ˜ฒ

    Well, I'll be neutral :?

    Its true that world's gateway to internet is through Google.com , let's take a look at numbers -Google fields 48.1 percent of the searches online, followed by Yahoo at 31.8 percent and MSN at 16 percent, according to ComScore QSearch. Google no doubt has the biggest index of pages followed by Yahoo & MSN.

    It must be noted that Yahoo search does a better job when it comes to indexing Blogs than rivals Google & MSN search... (Well mine does not show up on Yahoo & Google :roll: ). Let us not exclude AdCenter- Microsoft's answer to Google Adwords. Microsoft, they say, has generated (and is tracking) lots of user specific data through Hotmail, MSN and other services. It maintains it under GUID (Global UserID). AdCenter will user this data to provide superior quality search results. But yes, you have to pay for this service.

    Search engines may continue to fight, but we, the end users, are the winners! What say? ๐Ÿ˜‰
  • Anil Jain
    Anil Jain
    sure

    Its true that world's gateway to internet is through Google.com , let's take a look at numbers -Google fields 48.1 percent of the searches online, followed by Yahoo at 31.8 percent and MSN at 16 percent, according to ComScore QSearch. Google no doubt has the biggest index of pages followed by Yahoo & MSN.



    Nice collection of Data Mr. Admin

    ya end user are the winners...am agree

    Cazy
  • Kaustubh Katdare
    Kaustubh Katdare
    Latest News !

    Guys!

    Google has launched online spreadsheets! #-Link-Snipped-#

    You'll have to wait till they invite you to use their spreadsheets program ๐Ÿ˜€ .

    What do you think Microsoft will do ?

    -The Big K-
  • integratdbrains
    integratdbrains
    ya great job..

    The_Big_K
    Guys!

    Google has launched online spreadsheets! #-Link-Snipped-#

    You'll have to wait till they invite you to use their spreadsheets program ๐Ÿ˜€ .

    What do you think Microsoft will do ?

    -The Big K-
    I think Mr. Gates must be sufferring from insomnia..so many days have past but it could not make a niche in internet and see these google guys they can't stop from throwing the googlies... one after the other... before the writely.. now this one its cool. and guys don't forget the keyhole and blah blah.. which were successfully relaunched by google! guys do anyone have the link for writely?
  • Kaustubh Katdare
    Kaustubh Katdare
    Hi there! Welcome to the CE forums ๐Ÿ˜€

    No doubt that google did a great job with keyhole. Google is still #1 in search engines and their search index is way better than MSN or Yahoo.

    But wait! Big daddy isn't sleeping. Infact, MS is heavy on improving its search engine and they are determined to develop a search engine that (thay say) will put google to shame. Even on our CrazyEngineers website, the MSN bot spends more time than Yahoo Slurp Spider or Googlebot.

    Have a look at this -

    "Google has no clue about what enterprises want or need. Any success they have (with Google Spreadsheets) will come in the consumer market first and then be dragged into the enterprise that way," said Gartner analyst David Smith. "The real power-users are not going to be giving up their Excel spreadsheets anytime soon."

    Btw, here's the link to Writely -> #-Link-Snipped-#

    -The Big K-
  • integratdbrains
    integratdbrains
    The_Big_K
    Hi there! Welcome to the CE forums ๐Ÿ˜€

    No doubt that google did a great job with keyhole. Google is still #1 in search engines and their search index is way better than MSN or Yahoo.

    But wait! Big daddy isn't sleeping. Infact, MS is heavy on improving its search engine and they are determined to develop a search engine that (thay say) will put google to shame. Even on our CrazyEngineers website, the MSN bot spends more time than Yahoo Slurp Spider or Googlebot.

    Have a look at this -

    "Google has no clue about what enterprises want or need. Any success they have (with Google Spreadsheets) will come in the consumer market first and then be dragged into the enterprise that way," said Gartner analyst David Smith. "The real power-users are not going to be giving up their Excel spreadsheets anytime soon."

    Btw, here's the link to Writely -> #-Link-Snipped-#

    -The Big K


    Thanks for the warm welcome! Sure with alot of Vitamin M in hands Big Bills will be flowed by Mr. Gates for the challenge he has taken.I don't have a particular liking for any of these but i certainly appreciate the fact that there was a Core competitor for MS and that too in a very short span.. ๐Ÿ˜€ and may i take this opportunity to congratulate u for this site! good job dude!and the team as well.
  • Kaustubh Katdare
    Kaustubh Katdare
    end user wins

    integratdbrains
    [/b]

    Thanks for the warm welcome! Sure with alot of Vitamin M in hands Big Bills will be flowed by Mr. Gates for the challenge he has taken.I don't have a particular liking for any of these but i certainly appreciate the fact that there was a Core competitor for MS and that too in a very short span.. ๐Ÿ˜€ and may i take this opportunity to congratulate u for this site! good job dude!and the team as well.
    Thanks ๐Ÿ˜€ ! Its the CEans who are doing a great job. Please introduce yourself in 'Introduce Yourself' section ๐Ÿ˜

    Uncle Bill has money and he's using it in next version of Windows. Google is no doubt giving MS sleepless nights. The war is on and the end users are winning. Isn't that good? ๐Ÿ˜€

    -The Big K-
  • rick
    rick
    I have registered for google's spreadhsheets program but yet to receive an invite from them ๐Ÿ˜ . Google beats MSN in two major areas - Online Search & Online Advertising.

    Microsoft has the money power and their flagship products to their side. OS market is totally dominated by microsoft and it is really impossible for any other company to forey into OS market and beat the mighty Windows. What happened to Linux? They are giving it out for free. But still, it doesn't come close to Windows.

    As biggie said, consumers will be the winners! So Chill !

    Rick

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