Comments on: Google Copies Microsoft Live Search

By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 05:43:17 +0000

CPU heavy? A search engine? I honestly hadn’t noticed any CPU load issues when using the Web search or the image search….

By: ctmagnus

ctmagnus — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:14:54 +0000

One advantage that Google has: it’s slightly less CPU-heavy than Live is.

By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:29:07 +0000

“Jason, whom are you accusing of a double-standard? Google? Or the media?”

The media – the same media that fawns over Google’s every move. Google releases some random beta, the media proclaims Google has “changed the game”, and a year later that same Google beta is sitting idle. It’s great that Google tries new things – I’m all for betas – I just dislike it when the media blows everything out of proportion.

[You should probably disclose that you work for Google, shouldn't you? ]

By: Janak Parekh

Janak Parekh — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:53:29 +0000

Jason, whom are you accusing of a double-standard? Google? Or the media?

(Honestly: I haven’t seen the media accuse Live of being that much of a Google clone, except for, perhaps, the “simplified” frontpage, and not recently at that. But, then of course, I don’t track that news so closely, so take it with a huge grain of salt. I don’t place much stock in the media’s analysis of much of… anything anymore.)

By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:34:08 +0000

Nope, it’s not a Windows Vista feature, I’m seeing it in XP. Might be rolling out across the search network…

By: manywhere

manywhere — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:39:12 +0000

I noticed this too when I fired up an Google Image search in Opera on Windows Vista. But, the other day I used Opera on my Win XP machine at work, and that hover search thingy didn’t appear. So, is this just a Windows Vista “feature” from Google or is the thing just propagating through the Google distributed servers network ?