MetaFilter posts tagged with msn and internet

SBC Vonage Google Internet pay Yahoo

thedailygrowl — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:30:56 -0800

"They use my lines for free -- and that's bull." The CEO of SBC Communications Inc. Ed Whitacre launched this criticism at the likes of Vonage, Google,Yahoo and MSN. Meanwhile Google is seeking some alternative paths to the Internet.Perhaps SBC should head the old adage from John Gilmore "the net treats censorship as a defect and routes around it”Or perhaps these companies need to pay the proverbial Internet plumbers; myself, I prefer more competition;my phone bill has never been lower!

Search Wars

Mwongozi — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:34:27 -0800

Search Wars The BBC reviews five search engines, including Google and the new MSN beta

Biz Stratergy MS uses

jayantk — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 05:17:54 -0800

Google: the God that failed? is the title of the article on MSN Slate. All of us know Microsoft is working on a new search engine technology. Till date everyone considers Google to be the Guru. MS obviously doesn't like that, so what it is doing? Well, the same thing it always does - to survive competition, eliminate it. The reasons being given by the article are pretty silly and more aimed at 'faming down' Google.

baylink — Thu, 05 Oct 2000 07:27:07 -0800

I don't recall having heard from anybody that the consumer experience of getting online required redefinition.

mathowie — Thu, 13 Jan 2000 11:42:52 -0800

The bandwidth speed test over at MSN seems to be the most accurate one I've used so far. It gave out statistics that are very close to what I expected, and didn't choke just because I'm on a T3. (thanks blogblog)