Bing vs Google, Bing is faster, crisper and just as if not more extensive in its results
LIBERATOR
Hopefully MS will have Usenet services soon.
Do a side by side comparison and I believe you'll find Bing to be
better.
Dänk 1010011010
Bing is a Microsoft product, so I assume it will be just as crappy as
its operating system.
And while I'm not sure whether to trust Google to protect my privacy,
I certainly don't trust Microsoft.
Rich
4a23-a8ce-0...@r24g2000prf.googlegroups.com:
You can trust Google as long as you're not a Chinese dissident.
Google Faces Lawsuit From Chinese Dissident
Posted by chinaview on February 4, 2008
By Mure Dickie in Beijing, The Financial Times, UK, February 2 2008-
A Chinese scholar who -challenged the communist government by setting up
a democratic opposition party has vowed to sue US internet company Google
for excising his name from its local search results.
Guo Quan�s condemnation of Google comes amid a renewed drive by Chinese
authorities to clamp down on dissent ahead of the Beijing Olympics that
has seen the arrest of Hu Jia, one of China�s best-known human rights
activists.
The threatened lawsuit by Mr Guo, a former Nanjing university professor,
highlights the anger felt by some reform-minded Chinese at the
willingness of foreign companies to bow to censorship in order to gain
access to China�s tightly restricted internet market.
�To make money, Google has become a servile Pekingese dog wagging its
tail at the heels of the Chinese communists,� Mr Guo wrote in an open
letter announcing his plan to sue the US search company.
The excision of Mr Guo�s name from google.cn raises questions about
Google�s censorship policy for the two-year-old website. Google had
promised to inform users when it censored searches, using a tagline that
says some results have been removed �in accordance with local laws, rules
and policies�.
But entering Mr Guo�s name in google.cn yesterday yielded a webpage
featuring only the message: �The information you searched for cannot be
accessed. Please go back to google.cn and seek other information.�
Speaking through a public relations representative, Google China said
yesterday that it would not comment on political or censorship issues.
The special action against Mr Guo�s name comes after he announced late
last year the creation of the New Democracy party dedicated to ending
China�s �one-party dictatorship�.
Baidu.com, the Nasdaq-listed Chinese search company, and the locally
controlled Chinese arm of US portal Yahoo have also blocked all searches
for Mr Guo�s name.
�Baidu is a Chinese company, so I can understand how it is coerced by the
Chinese Communist party,� Mr Guo wrote.
�But Google follows the party�s orders even though it is a US company, so
I�m suing.�
Google�s actions had harmed the eponymous clothes company of which he was
chairman � as well as the many other people in China who shared his name,
said Mr Guo. A friend in the US would handle legal arrangements for his
suit, he wrote, but gave no details.
Analysts say Beijing has been tightening controls on local media and the
internet apparently in an effort to ensure political stability ahead of
the Olympics in August.