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Tone



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PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:38 am    Post subject: What search engine do you prefer and why? Reply with quote

Many people like using google but I always prefer msn because the page looks nice. They are not so messy.

Sometimes, I feel like there are too many pages in google right now and the result usually irrevant...

What do you think?
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PostPosted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I still like Google the best. In general, I find that Google's first hits are usually the ones that I wanted. I have almost never found them irrelevant.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 6:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Google is good, but sometimes I would like Baidu when I need to download music.

Here in China, Baidu offers such a great funcation: searching music! and that's the fastest way to listen to a song or something like that.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 27, 2007 8:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I usually use Google for searching. Can you show me the way to use Baidu, Redrose? Very Happy . Thanks advance Very Happy Very Happy
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

jesse, Baidu is mostly for Chinese sites, I doubt it will be of use to you!
I prefer Google because I'm satisfied with it.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

garfield_jesse wrote:
I usually use Google for searching. Can you show me the way to use Baidu, Redrose? Very Happy . Thanks advance Very Happy Very Happy


click this site: www.baidu.com and see what you can find Very Happy

Admiral is right. In China, most people use Baidu.
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

RedRose wrote:

click this site: www.baidu.com and see what you can find Very Happy

I can't understand aNyThInG! Sad
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 8:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Baidu becomes the top 5 ranking website in a short time only becasue Chinese use it.

There are thousand million of Chinese and that's enough to drive some website to the top of the world... Very Happy

Another interesting Chinese application is qq. It becomes competitive with msn oly because it's popular in China
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tone wrote:

Another interesting Chinese application is qq. It becomes competitive with msn oly because it's popular in China


I don't like QQ. because it looks so dashing like a prostitute. But MSN's interface looks very graceful like a decent woman.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think QQ looks very childish with that pinguin
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Totally agree that msn looks very nice. But people go to google at the first place.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

because we always want the biggest advantage for us. And if we have more results, we think it could bring more advantage to us than less results. That's why we like Google.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wonder how Google makes money? since it's totally free. those people who run Google have to live with money, don't they? where is their money from?
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Their money is from advertising. They also made a lot of money when they went public and issued stock in the company.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 5:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lorikeet wrote:
Their money is from advertising. They also made a lot of money when they went public and issued stock in the company.


But when we open google page, we don't see any ad. google's home page is so clean and neat. maybe they sell their advertising somewhere else.
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