Posted Friday 29th August 2008 14:23 GMT
You search for something to find out its specifications, and instead end up wading through dozens of websites that just compare the same fucking sales pages to each other using three month old pricing information.
Posted Friday 29th August 2008 14:23 GMT
Did it shop around to find the best priced website ?
Posted Friday 29th August 2008 15:37 GMT
If a claimed 26.5 million unique visitors per month, is worth $486 million to M$ -
then if El Reg claims say 5 million unique visitors a month, it is worth roughly $100 million to M$...?
If I owned El Reg I would command the hacks to belabour and abuse M$ at every possible opportunity, and invent them if there weren't any.
Posted Friday 29th August 2008 15:37 GMT
I do those surveys sometimes when I'm bored. So now not only has Microsoft bought up my Hotmail account, the maker of my favorite charting software, and the game studio for one of my favorite game franchises, but they're buying another of my customer accounts at an online business?
This is absurd. Why the hell doesn't this conflict with MSN shopping? When will the convicted monopolists be kept from buying out their competition?
Posted Friday 29th August 2008 15:54 GMT
...it simply doesn't find what you're looking for. If I use Live search to try and find anything, it just doesn't find what I need. Google does. End of.
Paris because you'd be better off calling her and asking her to guess where what you're looking for might be than using Live search.
Posted Friday 29th August 2008 19:43 GMT
So now Microsoft is buying more crap to display.
"wading through dozens of websites that just compare the same fucking sales pages"
And most of them are the same site mirrored onto dozens of domain names.
Maybe MS will block the Google spider and I will not have to see them any more :)
Posted Saturday 30th August 2008 09:41 GMT
I visit them maybe 5 times a month. All by accident because I'm not careful enough to avoid their results in Google. Quick backspace and I'm back to the other search results.
How many other visitors use them like this?
Paris, because she's never unwanted.
Posted Saturday 30th August 2008 09:41 GMT
Preaching to the choir, Michael, preaching to the choir...
Posted Saturday 30th August 2008 20:20 GMT
try this site ...
www.givemebackmygoogle.com
... it strips out all the shopping comparison stuff. very useful.
Posted Sunday 31st August 2008 08:44 GMT
... because a lot of them are not "comparison" sites at all, they are just front-ends to pull in the punters to a specific finance house etc.
Trades Descriptions should be called in.
Posted Sunday 31st August 2008 08:44 GMT
I really, *truly* hate the way Infernal Explorer "fails" to find a website when I type the URL in correctly and brings up a LiveSearch page that has exactly the same website on a "did you mean this instead?" list.
On the other hand, IE does keep a nice list of all the websites I have visited so my missus knows I'm not looking at things (she thinks) I shouldn't... (despite my best efforts, she still thinks there's nothing wrong with IE so I just use it for my 'worksafe' browsing...;-)
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