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more evil than satan - MSN Search says google.com is more evil than satan

more evil than satan - MSN Search says google.com is more evil than satan
MSN Search: more evil than satan

According to MSN Search's new beta search engine from Microsoft the google.com search engine is "more evil than satan" - a search on MSN Beta brings up google.com as the first search result out of of 2,971,727 containing the term more evil than satan.

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PCWorld.com - Microsoft Rolls Out MSN Search Beta

PCWorld.com - Microsoft Rolls Out MSN Search Beta

Microsoft Rolls Out MSN Search Beta

Software giant says the final version will be available next year.

Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service
Thursday, November 11, 2004
A beta version of the search engine Microsoft is developing went live Thursday, offering users an interface and a set of features that make the product begin to resemble established search engines from competitors Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, and America Online.


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Microsoft had released a less-developed version of the MSN Service for public tryouts in July. That was simply a search box without special features or functionality, and it returned results grabbed from an index of about 1 billion documents, a Microsoft official says.

But the beta version released Thursday has an index of over 5 billion documents and lets users narrow and customize their queries in a variety of ways, says Justin Osmer, an MSN Search product manager.

The beta of MSN Search is available at beta.search.msn.com.

The MSN Search service is expected to be ready in final release in 2005 and will eventually replace the search engine technology that Microsoft currently licenses from Yahoo to power the MSN portal's search feature, he says. "Our overall goal with this beta and eventually with the final product is to help users find whatever information they want faster," Osmer says.


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Alternative Search Engines Receiving Much Hype, but the Giants Still Dominate; Hitwise Featured at AD:TECH NYC Conference and Exposition

Alternative Search Engines Receiving Much Hype, but the Giants Still Dominate; Hitwise Featured at AD:TECH NYC Conference and Exposition

AD:TECH New York 2004

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 8, 2004--Despite recent publicity of several alternative search engines, as well as general excitement for the broader search industry, search traffic and its growth still resides largely with the major engines. According to Hitwise, the world's leading online competitive intelligence service, one in every fourteen visits to the Internet by U.S. Web users goes to the top 10 search engines, a seven percent increase when compared to the same period a year ago (week ending Nov. 1, 2003).


"This increasing concentration of traffic among the top search engines, particularly Google and Yahoo! Search, is indicative of the brand equity they've built over the years," said Bill Tancer, Vice President of Research, Hitwise. "This phenomenon is underscored by the ubiquity of the larger engines in nearly every demographic and psychographic group in the Hitwise reports."

Newcomers Garner Hype, But Have Yet to Claim Mass Audiences

Five relatively new search sites (www.vivisimo.com, www.clusty.com, www.alltheweb.com, www.a9.com and www.snap.com) have received significant publicity recently, but they collectively claim only one-tenth of a percent of total visits to the Search Engines and Directories category, and each ranked below 75 according to market share.

"The market share of these search sites may be small, but it's important to note that Google itself was in such a position not too many years ago," said Tancer. "The challenge for the smaller players that want to become mainstream search portals is to gain mindshare and ultimately deliver the most relevant search results."

Visitor market share has remained relatively flat for these five sites during 2004, with the exception of Amazon.com's www.a9.com. It entered the Hitwise reports the week ending April 17, 2004 and its market share has since skyrocketed by 1,150 percent, driven largely by Amazon-related promotions. Amazon.com delivered 43 percent of www.a9.com's traffic the week ending Oct. 30, 2004.

Newcomer Search Sites Deliver Less Shopping Traffic

Compared to mainstream search sites like Google and Yahoo! Search, the five newcomers above tend to deliver a slightly lower percentage of traffic to shopping and classifieds sites - indicating lower levels of paid search listings. While four newcomers delivered between seven and eight percent of visits to shopping and classifieds the week ending Oct. 30, 2004, Google, Yahoo! Search and MSN Search each delivered approximately 10 percent of their traffic to the category. The exception was www.a9.com, which delivered 18 percent of its traffic to shopping and classifieds sites, largely influenced by the affiliation with Amazon.com.

Hitwise Featured at AD-TECH Conference & Exposition in New York

Please visit Hitwise executives at AD:TECH:

-- Bill Tancer, vice president of research for Hitwise, will be a featured panelist at 11:15 AM on Wednesday November 10, 2004 at the session titled "Reaching Consumers Across Media Channels."

-- Hitwise executives will also be present during the entire conference in the exhibitor hall (tabletop #17) to provide more information on the company's e-commerce intelligence services.

Contact:

For media inquiries or to schedule an analyst interview, please contact Lizzie Babarczy: press@hitwise.com; (212) 331-1283.

About Hitwise:

Hitwise is the world's leading online competitive intelligence service. Each day, Hitwise monitors how more than 25 million Internet users interact with over 500,000 websites across 160 industry categories.

By monitoring more people, more websites, more often, Hitwise provides marketers with timely and actionable marketing insights on how t

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