The New Yahoo!, Google, MSN Et Al. Battleground

A reader writes: "Kelkoo sold to Yahoo for 575 million dollars!" That, in and of itself is not that interesting - but combine that with Google's inclusion of Froogle into the front page, and things become more interesting. The comparison shopping field, including places like PriceGrabber (Disclaimer: OSDN is an affiliate of PriceGrabber) in the US, Kelkoo/Yahoo! overseas, Froogle, and MSN is heating up in competition. Now that search has been monetized, the next battleground for big money is in comparison shopping, beyond MySimon and other smaller ones.

The question is...

[FortKnox]

The question is what comparison shopping search did yahoo use to buy Kelkoo??

Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

Anyone got a Venn diagram of this?

Re:I don't really see what the big deal is.

[Wun Hung Lo]

Not possible, mon frere. Microsoft is the clear leader in the search field (even though they haven't done it yet). To quote the head of MS's search project, "Google is a nice little search engine, but nothing compared to my vision." I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm quivering with anticipation. I know that you non-believers will say, "But Wun Hung Lo, how is it possible that I will do a search on MS's web site and not find my answer, but if I do the query on Google, I will find a hit on MS's website! Is it possible that Google has MS indexed better than MS themselves?" All I can say that it is an unexplainable anomaly and will be fixed with the next security patch. MS search rules!!

I hope this works better than PriceWatch

[FunkSoulBrother]

I have a bad feeling Froogle is going to get taken by the same people who list things for a dollar on Pricewatch and then you can't find anything near that price when you click the link.

Re:The future of search.

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

Competing against Google seems futile at this point in my life.

I bet all Google employees are letting out a sigh of relief at this very moment...

Re:who cares?

[Anonymous Coward]

This recent sentament that google "owns" anything is stupid

Bender: "No, YOU shut up!"

Re:The future of search.

[strictnein]

To be useful, for me it had to be:
- Extremely low on the cpu
- keep the database small (10'000 webpages in 50MB or less)
- fast. Let me search in 2seconds tops.

Anyobdy already working on this?

I am, but mine has the following specs:
- Extremely cpu intensive
- huge 5 GB Database per year archived
- extremely slow with frequent system crashes, at least 50 minutes per search and the search program gets set to the highest priority so nothing else can function

Re:who cares?

[Anonymous Coward]

As evidence of Microsoft's complete lack of credibility for search results, try searching on "warez" at msn vs. google.

At msn, the first page of results are anti-piracy sites.

Re:The future of search.

[monstroyer]

" After browsing for pr0n I like to clear my browser's history and cache so that the girlfriend doesn't stumble upon something. This idea bascially let's anyone search for what pr0n websites my "cat" has been looking at over the last year."

Ideally, you'd be able to turn the indexing off and on at will. When you are about to cheat on your girlfriend with "Palmela", click on the "If the trailor is a rocking" button to turn off indexing. Turn it on when your 15 minutes is up.

You and your cat must be having some good times.

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[Zirtix]

+1, Insightful!

yahoo wins!

[theendlessnow]

I can't even create one good spam mail address from google. It's like they're not even setup to support the spammer. Lame google.