So Microsoft is going to challenge Google in searchspace? Let me see, "to Google" something is pretty well understood everywhere in cyberspace as meaning to get comprhensive data on a subject through an internet search service. "To Microsoft", if it means anything at all, would probably mean to fuck over your competition and your customers by leveraging a monopoly to squeeze out competition and foist crappy software on your customers.
Google runs on Linux, Microsoft search runs on God knows what, although if they want it to work more than a few hours at a stretch, I'm guessing not Windows. That is a sort of metaphor for the whole situation: free and open source versus Satan.
So, in honor of the launch of Microsoft's new search service, I have edited my robots.txt file to tell msnbot to take a hike.
Posted on February 7, 2005 09:32 AM