MSN Test Drive: “java sucks” vs “.net sucks”

2 February, 2005 Greg Luck 3 comments

The first question on my mind about MSN’s new search engine is whether it provides an unbiased view of the Internet. Judge for yourself

Google: 410,000
MSN: 846,373

Google: 3,000,000
MSN: 245,041

Open Source none

Written by Christian about 6 years ago.

Google basically ignores the “.” and msn doesn’t.
Written by Isaac Gouy about 6 years ago.

On Google you are searching for all of the words ‘net’ and ‘sucks’ – you aren’t searching for .net
Both .net sucks and net sucks give ‘about 3,080,000′ hits.
On MSN Search, searching for net sucks gives 5,792,129 hits
Searching for .net sucks seems to very effectively narrow the search to pages containing .net – that’s a good thing!
Written by Ashish about 6 years ago.

Your reasoning is flawed. It would be one thing if both Google and MSN Search were searching the same number of pages. Most likely they are not. This questionable premise (and what 2 other commenters before me have said) makes your suggestion of bias somewhat far-fetched. We might as well rely on patterns made by clouds to tell us the same things.