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Pavel Chuchuva commented on MSDN vs. Google

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 00:55:04 GMT

Google MSDN search: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=001706605492879182808%3Ayra97xpb_7y

mawi commented on MSDN vs. Google

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:59:37 GMT

Right on!! I've thought the same thing! A lot of people are missing the bit about google beating LOCAL MSDN search as well. Embarrasing to MS and freakin annoying to us devs.

Rachit commented on MSDN vs. Google

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:40:29 GMT

Sooo much agreed. MSDN2 is definitely dog slow. Especially, when it tries to load the left side navigational Tree. Takes forever... Google definitely returns better results.

Luke Breuer commented on MSDN vs. Google

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:23:45 GMT

To be honest, I pity anyone not using a lightening fast machine with VS2005 or client MSDN. With a top-flight machine, VS2005 is pretty decent. Without... convert to Linux. :-p

Grimace of Despair commented on MSDN vs. Google

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:41:38 GMT

At the local DevDays, I recently asked Ingo Rammer if he had any idea why the MSDN site has (always?) been so painfully slow, *knowing* it's MS window to developers. You might want to show to (potential) users that your technology works, don't you? He couldn't come up with anything either but "probably no priority". For me, it's a big showstopper. I sometimes find myself *not* wading through MSDN just because I know I will be spending minutes on searching just a small feature. Long live Google cache!

Luke Breuer commented on MSDN vs. Google

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 22:41:50 GMT

What are your computer's specs? I think local MSDN takes < 5 seconds from a cold start on mine: Raptor 10K 150GB, Core2 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR2. I do agree that online MSDN is horribly slow, although not nearly as slow as you have noted. I'm guessing I'm a lot closer to the closest MSDN server than you are.