[eitland]

> in term of tech issues, not really no, it's not even close.

Like with IE that is the next step.

Once competition is utterly crushed, do you think Google "can defend" using tens of millions a year on this?

Microsoft "could not" and they have a much stronger history of maintaining stuff.

Why then would I think that a company that cannot even properly maintain their main public facing property, the search engine?

You know it used to be superior, today it is utterly meh, and no it isn't search spam sites, it is failing to acknowledge doublequotes and the verbatim setting. A billion spam sites cannot break that. Lack of competition can though.