Microsoft Says Search Better Than Google Soon | March 1, 2006: "Within the next six months, according to a Microsoft executive, the company will introduce a search engine that can do a better job of finding the specific information sought by users.

By Reuters
InformationWeek

Mar 1, 2006 02:50 PM


PARIS (Reuters) - Microsoft will introduce a search engine better than Google in six months in the United States and Britain followed by Europe, its European president said on Wednesday.
'What we're saying is that in six months' time we'll be more relevant in the U.S. market place than Google,' said Neil Holloway, Microsoft president for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
'The quality of our search and the relevance of our search from a solution perspective to the consumer will be more relevant,' he told the Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit.
But being good is not enough to win the hearts and minds of consumers already dedicated to another standard.
U.S. courts and the European Commission found Microsoft countered that problem by trying to kill off Netscape's browser and RealNetworks audiovisual software by bundling its competing code into Windows, violating antitrust laws.
But bundling would find little purchase against Google because it lives insulated from Microsoft on the Web, unlike other applications that were easy game for the software giant as they perched directly on Windows.
Holloway said that the company has no plans to integrate its search engine into Vista, the new Microsoft Windows operating system set to replace Windows XP later this year or early next year
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