RE: " Have you installed it?"
Sorry I didn't answer sooner.
MS does a better search for me.
Am using MS search because it has the hierarchy I need for faster searches.
For example, Google dumps nearly everything (except images, etc) from the web into one long list. That's not efficient for my use.
Try MS search - it supports more category searches so you don't have to read your entire web cache of rejects.
If I am shopping for a sleeping bag from various stores and narrowed some down, I am really not interested in researching the entire web (cache) for this again like Google forces me to do. I want the sleeping bag list that's relevant, not every dang sleeping bag in my entire web cache that are filled with rejects. That would be like shopping all over again.
MS search also has preview so you don't have to waste time clicking on ten versions of the same document like you do with google. For example, I'm not interested in looking at a zillion business plans from the year 2000 that google spits out from my hard disk, but want the good plans from 2005. Google is giving me the plans from 2000, not the ones from 2005. No thanks.
But I do like Google's mobile better. MS needs to step it up on the mobile, because mobile is an easy entry to rule absolutely everything. Volume rules. Google is getting there.
I also like Google's main home page better. MS Search should be on www.microsoft.com , what the heck put it in the middle top, they need to get rid of the junky toolbar on the top RHS that's too elementary. No one goes to MSN to search - maybe the VP MSN thinks so but it's natural he would, put the better one on Microsoft.com. On a different note, MS needs better news (maybe MS should buy Yahoo) and step up web advertising business model (etc) - I think MS needs Yahoo's Adv CEO for this area. MS would need to annihilate Google - this is no Novell.
But it is surprising MS Search is better than Google's search, given Google is a search company. Maybe black isn't fashionable anymore. But there's still the advertising/news gap that possibly Yahoo can fill.
My guess is Google's team is getting spread too thin working on other ms-things. So, Google's desktop search suffers.
Regards,
Amy J |
