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Michael Hoffman (Blog) - March 23, 2006 3:47 PM

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The recent appointment of Steve Sinofsky was an expected move from Microsoft

Microsoft has named Steve Sinofsky as the new head of its Windows and Windows Live divisions, which is the latest part of a massive reorganization by Microsoft. Some of Sinofsky's tasks will include trying to help MSN compete against Google and Yahoo and to make Microsoft software releases occur faster. Microsoft has said that these changes have been planned for months and have nothing to do with the company announcing that Microsoft Vista will be delayed. When Sinofsky takes over, it is most likely that Vista will have been released. According to USA TODAY:

The changes follow a directive issued by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates several months ago aimed at rallying his troops toward offering more ways to do things like store e-mail and manage business tasks over the Internet.

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Google and Yahoo

By Ksyder on 3/23/2006 4:48:24 PM , Rating: 3

Well at least they wised up to playing Google's game of making their search page very lean as far as graphics go so it loads instantaneously which is, IMO, why people have consistently gone to Google instead of the traditional paradigm of the "web portal" ala MSN.com or Yahoo.com, etc. Check out the similarities between the two:
http://search.msn.com/
http://google.com/

Same idea, at least... if they could get rid of those obnoxious sponsored links too I'd be a convert.

RE: Google and Yahoo

By creathir on 3/23/2006 5:05:04 PM , Rating: 3

FYI...
This search has looked like this for a LONG time...

http://www.google.com/
http://search.msn.com/
http://search.yahoo.com/
http://search.ask.com/
http://www.dogpile.com/

All have the SAME look...
Just lettin' ya know...

- Creathir

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RE: Google and Yahoo

By Ksyder on 3/23/2006 5:22:18 PM , Rating: 2

Thanks, I thought that was somewhat new along with MSN beta search that came out last year or whenever.

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RE: Google and Yahoo

By BillyBatson on 3/24/2006 1:30:34 PM , Rating: 2

forgot
http://mamma.com/

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RE: Google and Yahoo

By BillyBatson on 3/24/2006 1:31:13 PM , Rating: 2

oh and of course
http://www.altavista.com/

all have the basic same look

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RE: Google and Yahoo

By oTAL

(blog) on 3/23/2006 5:28:06 PM , Rating: 2

one other thing that will always stop them from winning me over until they have a notoriously superior product is the URL. It's way more wasy to just write google and press CTRL+ENT.

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RE: Google and Yahoo

By TomZ on 3/23/2006 5:31:05 PM , Rating: 3

Already solved, at least in the near future when it comes out of beta: http://www.live.com/

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RE: Google and Yahoo

By mindless1 on 3/24/2006 12:09:13 AM , Rating: 2

What was solved? Click the link and start counting till it finishes loading.

MS won't win the search war because nobody WANTS to use MS for searching. MS is going to try to do the same thing, different day, as Google. No reason to switch then. What MS would have to do is take an advertising loss so people don't have ads pushed at them and religiously police the search hits to keep those spoof free as well. Instead their age-old strategy is "we know what you want to do more than you do". If that were true, then they'd have known we wanted to search Google and Google wouldn't be the power that it is already.

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RE: Google and Yahoo

By masher2

(blog) on 3/24/2006 7:44:15 AM , Rating: 2

> "What was solved?"

Why not read posts before you reply to them? He was pointing out that www.live.com could be access via entering live + ctrl-enter.

> "MS won't win the search war because nobody WANTS to use MS for searching"

Anyone who isn't mindless (no pun intended) simply wants to use the best product. They don't give a rats ass which company provides it.

If MS can deliver a superior search engine, it'll eventually beat Google out in the marketplace.

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