OMG! I can't express how much they copy OMG! just doesn't do enough!!!
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=the+answer+to+life+the+universe+and+everything&go=Search&mkt=en-gb&scope=&FORM=LIVSOP
Either they copied googles easter eggs or they are just using Google Calculator
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Well... they didn't quite copy *everything*:
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=number+of+horns+on+a+unicorn |
:D I also checked that out but seriously, thats low. |
Because Microsoft didn't copy that one, I just learnt what a "smoot" is after checking the cached page of the first result.
e.g. [10 feet in smoots]
http://www.google.com/search?q=10+feet+in+smoots
<< The smoot is a nonstandard unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity prank. It is named after Oliver R. Smoot (class of 1962), an MIT fraternity pledge to Lambda Chi Alpha, who in October 1958 was used by his fraternity brothers to measure the length of the Harvard Bridge between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
One smoot is equal to his height (five feet and seven inches ~1.70 m), and the bridge's length was measured to be "364.4 smoots plus one ear". Smoot repeatedly lay down on the bridge, let his companions mark his new position in chalk or paint, and then got up again. Eventually, he tired from all this exercise and was thereafter carried by the fraternity brothers to each new position. Everyone walking across the bridge today sees painted markings indicating how many smoots they are from the Boston-side river bank. The marks are repainted each year by the incoming associate member class (similar to pledge class) of Lambda Chi Alpha. >>
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot
Simply amazing. |
If Microsoft didn't copy they wouldn't get anywhere :D
Google decides the built-in windows search is too slow, MSFT copies
Google gives 2GB storage while Hotmail has 10MB MSFT ups it's storage
Google has simple homepage MSFT copies (Live not MSN)
I've just visited Live.com and realised how much it looks like the old Google:
* Top right log in stuff
* Links Web, Images, News, Maps and even the More drop down menu (DDM)
* Middle Logo with search
* The Options DDM may look different but look at the options it gives you!!!
* Then Links at the bottom |
Wait, Wait, Wait... Just realised that this is only on the UK page and not the US page
http://www.live.com/?changeMarket=en-gb |
Try "googol" and "LIV in Arabic".
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=googol&num=1
http://www.google.com/search?q=LIV+in+Arabic&num=1
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=googol
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=LIV+in+Arabic
There are many other constants and expressions for which google calculates a result, but msn live does not yet.
A list of google calculator examples can be found at googlesystem.blogspot. It includes several other examples that are not yet caclulated by live.
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/03/google-calculator.html
Here are links to the google searches from that list, but note that the case may need to be changed for google to recognize some of them.
http://blogoscoped.com/forum/106964.html#id107849 |
