{"id":24,"date":"2004-11-11T15:33:46","date_gmt":"2004-11-11T19:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/newblog\/?p=24"},"modified":"2004-11-11T15:33:46","modified_gmt":"2004-11-11T19:33:46","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Exaggerate Much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; UK Times Online has <a href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,9075-1354322,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">an article<\/a> about their beta test of the new Microsoft search engine.<\/p>\n<p>Their first line is, &#8220;Bill Gates may be the world&#8217;s most generous philanthropist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now I realize the Gates Foundation has given a lot of money to a lot of worthy causes. I realize a lot of his money goes to help people all over the world. But come one, the world&#8217;s most generous philanthropist? He&#8217;s fighting off enough bad Karma to take over hell itself. World&#8217;s most generous philanthropist &#8211; yeah right.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, after the CYA portion of the article, it goes on to be actual journalism. They spent 30 minutes testing the new Microsoft search engine, and caused it to break down <i>eight<\/i> times! That&#8217;s impressively craptastic even for Microcrap.<\/p>\n<p>Other problems they report were long delays in returning results, and being asked to &#8220;try again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the fun doesn&#8217;t stop there! Experts predict Microsoft&#8217;s search engine may hinder the entire internet! They worry Microsoft will scan the net too aggressively slowing down smaller sites across the web.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Microsoft for attempting to infect even more things with your evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230; UK Times Online has an article about their beta test of the new Microsoft search engine. Their first line is, &#8220;Bill Gates may be the world&#8217;s most generous philanthropist.&#8221; Now I realize the Gates Foundation has given a lot of money to a lot of worthy causes. I realize a lot of his money [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}