Quote: "You are obviously upset that your favourite company in the world (MS) is losing the search battle."
NEWSFLASH! MSN Search has NEVER been that popular.
What is ticking me off is that everyone is doing the same damn thing.
Oh wow, so Talk has the ability to contact people via audio like Skype. Yeah, try actually using Yahoo or MSN once in a while. Both provide you with the ability to Text Message, Phone, or even Video Phone people. They both had this ability for going on a year now.
The ability in Talk is quite simply a case of an Audio Conversation with other G-mail people.
Honestly I don't care how Google run thier business. What I care about is the fact it's now affecting the aspects of Internet use I enjoy. The 'All-New Microsoft Search' yes it's suppose to be absolutely fantastic and so awesomely good that it could rival Google.
F**K RIVALING THEM. The reason I used to use MSN Search was I could actually find roughly what I was looking for without much effort. With Google and New MSN Search.. I spend 20-30minutes looking for something give-up and wait for someone else who seems to love using search engines to ask them if they can have a quick look for me.
Who gives a flying monkies if Google does have a better search engine, when this means that the rest of the world instantly make generic carbon copies of the technology? What I liked about MSN Search was it WAS NOT some super search engine that provided you with several billion links.
I don't care who can do what better if I can't find what I want. SURELY it's the point of a search engine to actually make it EASIER to find things?
Oh great the entire world seems to find Google much better and easier. Good for you, I don't. I liked my old MSN Search, maybe it didn't have some amazing ad-sense technology to sell me specialised suicide guns after 3 hours of searching for a picture of a freaking mouse that is actually a damn photo... but it does me no good if I can't find that the hell I'm looking for.
This is the exact same reason Linux pisses me off. It's not that Linux does everything better or worse that Windows; it's that over the past 10years Linux has been changing specifically to mimic Windows. Somehow when Linux does this "it's the best thing since sliced bread." ... Microsoft decided to keep Vista relatively the same as XP. This however ends up being a lack of innovation and Microsoft should be shot down because they're adding similar features to what Linux has so obviously Microsoft are the bad company.
Nothing to do with marketing either it's all about the ridiculous bullcrap zealot fanboyism that follows these programs around.
It's not Microsoft therefor it's GOOD. That's bullcrap and anyone with half a brain knows it.
Given these services are all free and run on 'word of mouth' this means that what people are saying about them is extremely important to how popular they become. Despite if they deserve it or not.
Quote: "And another thing--- most people don't use non-MS products because they're not MS-- that's ludicrous. Most people have brains and can think for themselves, so they use whatever is the best tool for them. I prefer GMail to other free accounts, but use my own web host for email. I prefer MS Office to OpenOffice because it's a familiar interface."
Sorry, but wake up and smell the java. You don't even have to go off of these forums to see that people DON'T think for themselves if they can help it. While it would be nice if people could sit down and make informed decisions on what they prefer.. if they did then there would be no 'Blitz3D is better than DarkBASIC Professional' or other crap.
Seriously, ask how many people use G-Mail and why. As soon as G-mail started, I got a ridiculous number of invites... sorry but any e-mail service that is free but isn't open to the public to sign up as they please isn't worth the hassle. All it does is breed that whole barrier of who has friends and who doesn't. So when someone does finally get invited despite how good or bad the service is they're just so plum happy they're accepted.
As far as I'm conserned all of the free e-mail accounts suck. I also don't believe any one e-mail provider is better than the others. It all comes down to personal preference, and if that can't decide it you go with whatever people say is best.
How the hell can anyone explain why AIM is tghe most popular Messenger Client?! Seriously I don't know anyone who ACTUALLY likes using it. Everyone I know is using it because they have friends on it. If everyone actually realised "HEY! No one likes it we should use something else." we might actually make some progress but then this is exactly how Microsoft stay in power with Windows as well.
It's not down to what is better or anything. It's purely down to the fact that people are now dependant. Once they're dependant even if they have the choice to stop that dependancy, they won't becuase it takes more effort to get off than remain on. So the problem compounds until it's too great for anyone to beat.
See, I make my choices based on my experience and what I like more. It's all down to personal preference. That said not everyone works like me, or works like you. Everyone is different, most don't want the effort of thinking.
Again just look around the forums, how many "Is DBP worth it?" posts do you see.
