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And What Does Google Want With Microsoft?


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#1 Dooga

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Posted 17 January 2006 - 06:10 AM

Hmm... I was browsing through google's robots.txt, and I found something really interesting!

Disallow: /microsoft? :(

Now why would Google have a directory called "microsoft"? :(

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Posted 17 January 2006 - 06:15 AM

Did you test it out? It's a Microsoft-specific search-engine: http://www.google.com/microsoft

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Posted 17 January 2006 - 06:31 AM

Wow that is really interesting. I never knew google had a microsoft specific search engine. If they have that, i think they so should have a linux specific search engine so that those of us minorities who use Linux at home would have a very easy place to search for help or just to try to find cool new software. That would be so wonderful but this isnt a perfect world

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Posted 17 January 2006 - 06:36 AM

fffanatics, on Jan 17 2006, 04:31 PM, said:

If they have that, i think they so should have a linux specific search engine so that those of us minorities who use Linux
Same response - did you try it out? http://www.google.com/linux :(

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Posted 17 January 2006 - 11:47 AM

haha Dooga you where looking true google robots.txt :( intresting stuff to do.
anyway, did you see there is a Disallow: /linux? too
and i think that is becouse google dont wont someone to type microsoft and the first thing that will popup on page is going to be google.com/microsoft
they dont wont your search to be around google sites, and i dont think that that google.com/microsoft isnt realy official... just for funn :(
like http://www.google.com/sms/demo :D dunno whats this.

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Posted 17 January 2006 - 02:48 PM

That is part of the demo page for the google sms service, part of the page displayed. What I'm keen to find out is, is google's http://www.google.com/microsoft or /linux really searching for help stuff on the respective items? because when I tried searching stuff like schools, or whatever it just produced results with schools related to microsoft. Some of the results are within microsoft's website and some are not. Nonetheless this is a very cool service with seemingly dedicated searches to a fixed catergory.

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Posted 17 January 2006 - 11:38 PM

That's wierd, when I tried google.com/microsoft it returned a 404 error. I thought it was a secret plan to remove Microsoft or something... lol!

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Posted 17 January 2006 - 11:59 PM

www.g00g13.com is the best imo.

The best thing about google is unlike most other companies, they have a sense of humor.

http://moon.google.com/ for instance. (zoom all the way in :()

also they always change there logo to reflect the holidays/some famous anniversary to liven things up a bit.

(not to mention last i checked their stock was going at 400ish a share)

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Posted 18 January 2006 - 12:15 AM

It seems to me that it is a site which specializes with searches about Microsoft. Somewhat like a news center that gathers all information people need about Microsoft. It is unofficial, in the sense that it is maintained by google, not Microsoft though, and so when bad news about Microsoft appear, the search engine may be the first search engine to spread them widely. I really like this design. We need a watchdog to closely look at Microsoft’s day to day operation and this site seems to be the first step.

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Posted 18 January 2006 - 12:16 AM

catfish, on Jan 17 2006, 06:59 PM, said:

www.g00g13.com is the best imo.

The best thing about google is unlike most other companies, they have a sense of humor.

http://moon.google.com/ for instance. (zoom all the way in :()

also they always change there logo to reflect the holidays/some famous anniversary to liven things up a bit.

(not to mention last i checked their stock was going at 400ish a share)

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lmao. That g00g13 thing is hiliarious. I didn't think Google would sink to such an unmature level. Then again, it makes people laugh and attracts more viewers.




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