Search Engines Gone Wild!!

Maybe it’s just me, but right now the major search engines like Google and MSN are competing for exposure like two spring break college co-eds in the latest installment of Girls Gone Wild!

Lets review shall we:

• First MSN announced plans to release a beta version of their search engine on Nov 11th (news)(wolf-howl)

• Insiders “knew” Microsoft’s engine was going to have 5 million pages indexed more then Google’s 4 million pages at the time (news)(news)
• In a show of one upsmanship Google doubles the size of it’s index to 8 million pages (news)(news)(wolf-howl)
• MSN launches and has a slight service outage (news)(news)
• Next comes the launch of the MSN Blog (news)
• Not to be outdone Google revises the Adwords program and announces certification (news)(news)
• GoogleGuy then emerges from the cone of silence and all but tells you how to start reverse engineering MSN’s new search engine (forum thread #94)
• Next Google enables POP3 access on GMail (news)(wolf-howl)
• Then the rumors start that MSN is crawling Google results to increase the size of their index (news)
• Then the discovery of the ‘more evil than Satan‘ search at MSN (news)
• Then comes the release of Firefox 1.0 and the discovery that the homepage is set google by default (news)
• Then comes news Google and Firefox have teamed up to create a special page (news)
• Then it’s suggested the Google - Firefox combo is more than just coincidence (news)
• Next MSN denies they are crawling Google results (news)
• Then MSN says the ‘more evil than Satan’ is a SERP bomb (news)
• Next there is speculation Google will start to advertise the languishing Froogle for Christmas (news)

Just to remind you all this happened in one week! I tell you you gotta love RSS feeds and a free RSS reader.

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