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Microsoft Google killer launched

has anybody seen the microsoft's new ''killer'' search engine? http://www.live.com.

I did and i thinks its a little late and isn't much more than a big ''ME TOO!'' It's even got the stupid ''the world is better in beta'' thing going on. congrats microsoft, you're 4 years behind the times.

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Oh sweet, do we get (HAVE) to use IE?
Mar 8, 2006 3:29AM PST

As a web designer - I'd rather have horse crap shoveled on my face...
(I guess some people enjoy that though...)

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haha

haha, i hear mac doesnt work with it.

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In true Microsoft fashion...
Mar 8, 2006 4:15AM PST

I go to the website, and see the word "loading" with spinning rings of dots. This goes on forever with Safari. Loads after a wait with Firefox. When it finally does load the search page, I tried a search and... big deal. I'll wait for the "experts" to tell me why this page is marginally better than Google at doing searches on holidays between 6:00 and 7:00 am for top 500 companies (or however this one specializes) and then choose to ignore it.

I will not wait as long for my search site to launch as I do when I click on a Word or Excel document. No thanks.

-Kevin S.

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Microsoft only original idea: Microsoft BOB.
Mar 8, 2006 4:34AM PST

Any one know if Microsoft has had a truly original idea? I mean?DOS was bought and then just basically resold to IBM. Windows was ?based? of a Xerox interface and their new and improved search engine: Google like. To late Microsoft, ?Google? is already in the American lexicon. Get back to making keyboards.

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Ick
Mar 8, 2006 4:43AM PST

disgusting. ick This thing is bad. What where they thinking. Maybe it looks better on IE? They should just submit this round to google.