Microsoft: Our engine to be better than Google soon

[navjotjsingh]

Microsoft will introduce a search engine better than Google in six months in the United States and Britain followed by Europe, its European president said on Wednesday.

"What we're saying is that in six months' time we'll be more relevant in the U.S. market place than Google," said Neil Holloway, Microsoft president for Europe, Middle East and Africa.

"The quality of our search and the relevance of our search from a solution perspective to the consumer will be more relevant," he told the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit.

But being good is not enough to win the hearts and minds of consumers already dedicated to another standard.

U.S. courts and the European Commission found Microsoft countered that problem by trying to kill off Netscape's browser and RealNetworks audiovisual software by bundling its competing code into Windows, violating antitrust laws.

But bundling would find little purchase against Google because it lives insulated from Microsoft on the Web, unlike other applications that were easy game for the software giant as they perched directly on Windows.

Holloway said Microsoft has no plans to integrate its search engine into Vista, the new Microsoft Windows operating system set to replace Windows XP later this year or early next year.

"Should we add a Google-like search engine, but twice as good, hard-core into Windows? Guess what. If we did that, I don't think a company called Google would be very happy," he said.

"You've also got to take a step back and say where do you integrate," he said.

Microsoft will put its search engine into its widely used communications tools Windows Messenger and Hotmail.

"Integrating search into those other applications...makes it very seamless for people," he said. Timing in Europe will be pegged to that in the United States.

"The U.K. will probably be at the same time, France maybe three months behind, Germany maybe three months behind. It's not two years behind."

He said Microsoft's goal--but not its initial offering--would go beyond finding URLs and instead focus in on the specific information sought by Internet users.

"Generally these days what you get back is URLs, and based upon research, 50 percent of the time you do a search you don't get the URL you're looking for," he said.

Holloway said that the promise of Microsoft's search capability is to dig down.

For example, he said, potential home-buyers might find a group of houses in the price range and with the precise amenities they're seeking.

Or Web surfers might find a restaurant with the kind of menu they want in a particular geographic area.

Source: http://news.com.com/Microsoft+Our+en...l?tag=nefd.top

Common...I can say that as the biggest tech joke of 2006! But let's look forward to howcome MSN Search changes in the coming year!

[devarajan]

Never...Google dominate's in search engine.

[~Phenom~]

I think it will take much more time for MS engine to compete with Google.

[vmp_vivek]

Originally Posted by ~Phenom~

I think it will take much more time for MS engine to compete with Google.

Yeah.... They just can't beat Gooogle!

[navjotjsingh]

Originally Posted by emanym

Atlast M$ confessed Google is better than theirs

LOL.....That should be the quote of the day!

[shaan_iam]

MS will never beat Google...........they are only joking

[knight17]

Originally Posted by shaan_iam

MS will never beat Google...........they are only joking

Everyone thought so when,Google emerged over Altavista
and the same happend when internet explorer came out to compete with netscape.

Noone can't predict what is going to happen.Everything are based on the code that runs in the background[read inteligent programming].

Microsoft have the potential for coming out with innovative solutions

What I can say now is Watch and see

[rajkumar_personal]

Tipical MICROSOFT !
They always promise to come up with something innovative but end up with lots of security holes.....

M$ needs to grow up and do lots of security scan before releasing their services to the common ppl !

But anyway......expecting a lot from them is folly !
What say ?