Microsoft to Google: Calmer Than You Are
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Written By Reprise Media | March 1, 2006 | Share This
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Well, maybe not calmer, but certainly better.
That’s what the gang at Microsoft is saying to Google about its new search engine, expected to debut sometime in fall of this year with a European release to follow.
This Reuters report has details on remarks made by Microsoft bigwig Neil Holloway at the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit.
Here are a few choice clips:
Holloway on the state of search today: “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.”
Holloway on Microsoft’s going-for-Google’s-jugular approach: “What we’re saying is that in six months’ time we’ll be more relevant in the U.S. market place than Google.”
Holloway on ‘No, we really mean it. You Google guys are dead’: “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.”
Is it us, or is this the same game they’ve been talking for years?
In other Microsoft news, the company is developing a foot pad interface that’ll one day guarantee your big toe will sport the same click-induced callus as your index finger. Check it out here.
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