The blogosphere was set humming this morning by a claim:

Faced with growing threats of free and open source software projects, Microsoft removed OpenOffice.org web site from its search engine results yesterday.

Tests by the OpenOffice.org Marketing Project members showed that Microsoft’s Live Search does seem to go out of its way not to return results from the openoffice.org domain. However, the results didn’t prove or disprove two possible explanations:

• Conspiracy – Microsoft are deliberately excluding a superior product to their Office offering; or
• ARSE – Microsoft Live is simply A Rubbish Search Engine

Try it yourself and see!

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