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http://beta.search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=more+evil+than+god&FORM=QBRE

Assemblies of God (USA) Official Web Site
... week, over 2.6 million people worship in more than 12,000 A/G churches across the U.S. as part ... suggestions . How we can make Assemblies of God Online a more valuable resource for you? ...

http://www.ag.org/ Cached page 11/11/2004

Firefox - Rediscover the web
... to browse faster, more safely, and more efficiently than with any other browser. Join more than 7 million others and make the switch today —Firefox imports your Favorites ...

http://www.getfirefox.com/ Cached page

Google
... Google's index nearly doubles to more than 8 billion pages . Advertising Programs - Business Solutions - About Google ©2004 Google - Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages

http://www.google.com/ Cached page 11/11/2004

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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19631

VOLE WATCHERS are alleging that Microsoft is cooking the books when it comes to their search operations.
On this site, Jason Dowdell provides screen shots of what happens when you type in 'evil', 'more evil than God' or 'more evil than Satan' into the MSN search engine. At the top of the list is either Firefox or Google.

The same search on Google will bring you stuff about the almighty or the Prince of Darkness without mentioning browsers or even Microsoft.

He said a developer friend was watching IP 65.54.188.86, which is registered to Microsoft, scan his site. This visitor was not sending the normal header information associated with a crawler to the web server such as an http robot name or identifying info or even a browser name.

The spider was looking for pages that were not there any more, which indicates that it was checking out a database from somewhere else.

Dowdell said that in this situation the missing pages were only being found on Google, which means that the spider had got the information from Google and was checking it out. Both of them watched the new MSN search beta and in a few hours the site was updated with the page freshly installed.

His theory is that MSN is using the results from Google and possibly even Yahoo to get all of the pages they've indexed on sites that have a relatively low page count in the current msn search engine.

 

[Freestyler]

Could it not just be a wording thing?

I mean, FireFox and Google must pay hugely to have their sites always at the top of any search results; and so when it finds the word combo 'more than' it shows FireFox (with 'more than 7 million users') and Google (with 'index doubles to more than..')?