Comments on: Gates calls for better search technology

Someday search will offer more than "just a bunch of links that starts a treasure hunt," Gates says during a talk on coming changes in tech.

[R. U. Sirius]

This is rich

Oh yeah, Billy-Bob Gates telling us that search engines are so poorly designed. Gee, I wonder what he could be referring to.

Oh, but I guess if everybody uses Windows search tools, then all will be well in the world.

Sorry Billy-Bob, I'm goin' with Linux dude.

Google

Although I use Linux I will say we will have to go the Google way. Works for all people pretty well. Even MS fan-bois can admit to that.

[Thomas, David]

DOH! $%^& Advice from Bill !!!?

There are a lot of options today and many more comprehensive
ones in development. Unless Microsoft buys out one of these
companies, and does not corrupt the software ...

Look, I guess I got just a little bit angry, but I am so sick and
tired of Microsoft announcing advances, and claims of things to
come when they are already here, or have been already
announced by someone else.

Each bovine (longhorn) announcement and demo keeps looking
more and more like Apples OSX and its capabilities. Most other
announcements are about things that the Linux world, and a lot
of other systems ALREADY HAVE. They shamelessly
demonstrated mockup versions of their search tool, RSS feed,
and others on several occasions. And I say shamelessly because
they remakably similar to what already exists, and they acted as
if they were bringing something new.

[R. U. Sirius]

Well Said

I agree with your comments vis-a-vis Microscum and their utter lack of innovation.

Oh please...

Search engines such. 99% of the time they either toss up ads for whoever forked out the most money or tons of links to information that nothing to do with what you were looking for.

Google sucks, Yahoo! sucks, MSN search sucks, they all suck. They need to stop worring about how they can cram more ads on the page and how they can charge more for it and start concentraiting on designing a search engine that gives you the results you need and that includes the unbiased results that are listed because they contain the information you need and not because joe blow spam head paid the most for it.

Search engines are like **** on a boar. Sure they look nice, but thats about it. :)

Robert

[pythonhacker]

Exactly...

"The Internet is so popular today that we need to just keep evolving it," he said. "It's not like we're going to throw it out and start over."

Right said! Internet is not like Windoze by any means that you have to throw it all out and start Longhorn. It is much better designed except for those big holes created by Windoze clients and servers.