Comments on: Google News faces Microsoft rival

Software giant hopes to one-up its Internet search rival with a wide-ranging "Newsbot" site.

[applian]

Great Technology

Google News is a great service, and having Miscrosoft as a competitor can only benefit consumers.

Now... add in a web site monitoring program like URLy Warning (www.urlywarning.net), and you have instant news alerts that pop-up on your desktop for ANY topic you choose. Now THAT is cool.

[dirk128]

What - this is nothing!

I'll hedge my bets on RSS and Atom aggregators, more power to the user I think. MS is peddling existing technology in a custom wraper, again.

MS is getting old and slow. I mean look at Internet Explorer, can't believe most people still use that aged technology full of security holes!! And, that there are fools that sign up for MSN on top of their ISP!! Unbelievable - a fool born every half second!

Time for the next generation

Always copying, never inventing.

M$ has no compunctions about copying and competing
which a growing innovative company that's just a
fraction of its size. But then, thats their modus operandi; and it has proved to be effective over the years.

[dmehus]

Google copies, too

I'm no Microsoft fan, but I grow tired of these partisan, troll-like attacks against Microsoft (or other companies, for that matter). Google does not always innovate. In fact, it copies quite often. That's the nature of competition. Google News is basically a copycat of Moreover Technologies news aggregation technology and Yahoo! News. Buying Picasa allowed them to compete with Yahoo! Photos. The list goes on.

All companies copy each other to a certain extent. It's not a bad thing.

The only company that deserves these partisan attacks and sniping is SCO.

Cheers,
Doug

[marlow714]

Google News is Bad

Google news (the tech section) must be hand picked IMO. If they are pulling all of their news from many sources then how on earth would 10% (or more sometimes) of it be about the greatest drama queen Apple? Common sense says maybe 1% of it would be. I gave up on Google news a while back and will never go back. When I want tech news I was real world news - not drama queen stories.