this is sucks, they should try to beat Google by something which is different from its foes' look.

this only makes Google the best

dont forget the non computer geeks dont travel away from there windows os platforms.

80% of computer uses probly dont even know about google. :) i know alot of ppl that just use msn and cnn.com

dont forget there are ppl that are diffrent.

Couldn't agree more.

Anyone that can judge the MSN beta app in one view is expressing blind loyalty to google.

Anyone that can say MS is copying google is expressing blind loyalty. Let's talk email.

Not one person has posted any real usage survey stats to back their usage percentage quotes, so that again has to be blind loyalty and a guess.

You have to do special things and follow rules to "get" in google and folks waste alot of time doing it IMO. Yahoo and MSN list sites that do none of the above just fine.

Most folks use MSN, Yahoo and AOL with IE and have buttons that are nicely custom configured for them to get to those places. They don't use google for an ISP and google is not in their faces, the others are.

Agreed, every techy person you talk to will say go to google. But let me tell you from being on the streets servicing computers for regular folks. They don't use google.

Does that mean google is not sucessful? By no means, they are a big player, they just aint the only player and they are not as original as one would like to believe.

Use what you like, but don't be ignorant and expect anyone to believe google or any search engine can be the best. They will all overlap at some point and not even cross reference in others.

The only way to be successful using a seach engine for any reason, reseach or advertising, is to use more then one.

No business keeps all it's eggs in one basket when sourcing anything. Why would you do it with research or advertising? To limit your business tools is to limit success which will certainly lead to failure.

lol, msn suck