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

By: Ashish

Ashish — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 07:12:27 +0000

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.

By: Isaac Gouy

Isaac Gouy — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 01:40:29 +0000

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!

By: Christian

Christian — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 01:25:33 +0000

Google basically ignores the “.” and msn doesn’t.