Post #94,161
4/3/03 6:18:05 PM
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Re: Hey, look who dropped in!
Having fun yet
All I meant was that they could make a connection to their system part of the OS
like an icon that would say Find Anything Anywhere on the Desktop and Start Menu of all WIndows machines, Like IE, WMP, etc.
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Post #94,163
4/3/03 6:19:54 PM
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Already there
On a default install, any terms entered into the address field of Internet Explorer go to MSN search. What, beyond this, did you really have in mind?
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Post #94,175
4/3/03 7:29:22 PM
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Re: Already there
You're talking about something in the background
most users learn to go to Google or Yahoo and don't even use the feature you mention (which is not really that good in any case)
a Google competitor from MS would have to have a way of guiding the user there first or it would not work
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Post #94,183
4/3/03 7:40:15 PM
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Does the phrase "privacy invasion" mean anything to you?
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Post #94,228
4/3/03 10:01:09 PM
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IE default search can be changed
the one I have uses Iwon.com which is powered by Google. I use it to get 100 points a day in their "search Lottery" system.
Google somehow added a "Search Google" button to my IE toolbar, and I also have a Yahoo toolbar as well.
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Post #94,310
4/4/03 9:41:51 AM
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I would hope not
a Google competitor from MS would have to have a way of guiding the user there first or it would not work If I put 'google.com' in the address field, it damn well better not guide me somewhere else. Thank you for clarifying what I suspected: you are suggesting that Microsoft ought to start hijacking traffic and transparently redirecting people to their own properties, regardless of what the user actually wants. ===
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Post #94,342
4/4/03 10:50:11 AM
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Oh, but you'll like Boodle . .
. . the user experience is so much "richer" - and you'll appreciate it poping up automatically every time it thinks you want to find something, just like Clippy.
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Post #94,390
4/4/03 2:24:38 PM
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Or that Purple Groilla, "Bonzi Buddy"
Using the MS Actors control, the "Bonzi Buddy" can help you search web sites, etc. That purple gorilla is about as annoying as the paper-clip. Almost the same thing. My father somehow got it, and I had to uninstall it for him. Some email he got told him to click on a link, which he did, and it went and installed it for him.
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Post #94,346
4/4/03 10:59:02 AM
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Remember the MSN search for Yahoo?
If you entered "Yahoo" in MSN's search bar, (or IE for that matter) you got your results, along with a popup letting you know how great MSN search was.
I don't think they still do that, but I wouldn't know - I don't use it. ;)
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Post #94,408
4/4/03 4:17:00 PM
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Re: I would hope not
I wasn't referring to hijacking traffic
I also am not privy to MS plans
what I meant was that they would need something to 'make' the user start the search from the desktop and not the browser
(there are such features already but basically no one uses them)
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