According to Microsoft Live, feed readers don’t exist

September 12, 2006 | No comments

Kind of, anyway. I just stopped by live.com to see what it was like (having not touched it during its entire beta period, oops!) I punch in ‘feed reader’.

This is what comes back:

livesearch1.jpg

Hmm…. Okay, let’s try feedreader, with the words merged:

livesearch2.jpg

Wow. One little space takes us from 0 results to 238,842?

Okay, and now let’s try Google. Here’s the results for ‘feed reader’, with the space:

googlesearch1.jpg

And now, here’s the Google result with the words combined:
Google 2

Now, don’t get me wrong. I dig Microsoft. I’m not a Microsoft hater whatsoever. I’ve been using their operating system for basically since I started using computers (and yeah, I’ve tried Linux - didn’t care for it).

But if their brand new, state-of-the-art search engine goes from 0 results to 250K, based one just a space between the words.. well uhh..

Put that Beta sticker back on, guys.

Update: Scratch the 0 results. I just tried the search again (feed reader) and got back about 5 million results. I guess their servers had a glitch or something.

As a humorous aside, the top results for ‘feed reader’ at live.com is the Google feed reader. ;)
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