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    Fox Business Network Thinks "Microsoft" and "Apple" Are Search Engines

    The Today Show Has Seen the Future of Gadgetry, and It's Idiotic
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    05/29/09

    In reply to Fox Business Network Thinks "Microsoft" and "Apple" Are Search Engines
    I like how they said Microsoft and Apple but not Mozilla.
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    Image of Dafrety Dafrety
    05/29/09

    @jakster4u: Knowing them they would have listed it as Mozzarella.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    05/29/09

    @Dafrety: Mmmm...mozzarella and apples.
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    Image of jdale jdale
    05/29/09

    In reply to Fox Business Network Thinks "Microsoft" and "Apple" Are Search Engines
    In other news, Fox News thinks that it is a news provider.
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    Image of Pwnerjam3.0 Pwnerjam3.0
    05/28/09

    In reply to Fox Business Network Thinks "Microsoft" and "Apple" Are Search Engines
    sure it was a typo...sheesh Giz, I say this with love but sometimes you guys are morons
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    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    05/29/09

    @Pwnerjam3.0: How is that a typo? Listing Google as a "Searh Engine" is a typo, but listing Firefox, Apple, and Microsoft as search engines is just plain wrong. Someone didn't know the difference and several other people didn't know enough about it to catch the mistake. And then it made it on to TV, and now it's on the internet where we can all use our own search engines to make fun of it.
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    Image of JonBad JonBad
    05/29/09

    @Pwnerjam3.0: It's impossible that it was just a typo. Substituting any word, company or product adds no more sense to the sentence. For instance, maybe they meant web browser. Well first off Apple and Microsoft are not web browsers but ok they do each have a web browser. If that was the case then the ordering is also wrong because Microsoft > Firefox > Apple not Microsoft >= Apple > Firefox. Ok then so then let's start substituting in a company instead of a product which in this case is Firefox. If we are talking search engines then Google is the obvious choice. But this creates two problems. One Apple doesn't have a search engine, only Microsoft does. In addition to that, Google is not behind any other search engine and it is Microsoft who is behind them. So maybe they meant OS's and were referring to Linux. In this case the ordering would make sense but they would have to replace Firefox with Linux and search engine with operating system


    As far as I can tell any correction to make this work requires at least two logical steps. Typos are one step corrections. Technically they are misspellings and do not misuse of words. I'm not a Fox basher at all but this was plain stupid and ignorant.

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    Image of ZetaCrossfire ZetaCrossfire
    05/28/09

    In reply to Fox Business Network Thinks "Microsoft" and "Apple" Are Search Engines
    Woot Firefox in the lead
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    Image of Chris Padilla Chris Padilla
    05/29/09

    @ZetaCrossfire:


    its the 3rd most popular dumbass

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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    05/29/09

    @Chris Padilla: whose the 1st most popular dumbass?
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    Image of Chris Padilla Chris Padilla
    05/29/09

    @92BuickLeSabre:


    all it said was that Firefox was AFTER Microsoft and Apple not establishing who was first or second

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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    05/29/09

    @Chris Padilla: Hm. No, I'm going to go with you're the 1st most popular dumbass.
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    05/28/09

    In reply to Fox Business Network Thinks "Microsoft" and "Apple" Are Search Engines
    They don't even list my favorite search engine:


    Colecovision.

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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/29/09

    @badhatharry: Well, I know it's a bit long in the tooth, but that's what makes it so totally rock solid: Fairchild Channel F
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    Image of Dallifornia Dallifornia
    05/28/09

    In reply to Fox Business Network Thinks "Microsoft" and "Apple" Are Search Engines
    FOX may have heard of search engines, but they don't know [i]exactly[/i] what they are.
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    05/28/09

    @Dallifornia: Also, web browsers. And software manufacturers. And one hardware manufacturer.


    Also, use these things instead of [] for the tags.

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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    05/28/09

    @badhatharry: It didn't read the sideways carat things. Here: ""
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    05/28/09

    @badhatharry: Fucking hell.
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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/28/09

    @badhatharry:


    Here ya', ya' little monkee:

    < and >

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    Image of bosskev bosskev
    05/28/09

    @bosskev: Here y'are, ya'...
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    05/29/09

    @bosskev: How'd you get them to show up?
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    Image of Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo
    05/29/09

    @Dallifornia: Please Let this work
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    Image of Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo
    05/29/09

    @Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo: Yay!
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    Image of Purple Umpteenth Purple Umpteenth
    05/29/09

    @Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabadoo: I wanna play

    really hope that worked. this could occupy me for quite a while.
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    Image of Purple Umpteenth Purple Umpteenth
    05/29/09

    @Purple Umpteenth: woot.
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    Image of Chroma3000 Chroma3000
    05/29/09

    When I type like this, it makes me seem like I'm talking very smoothly, with the kind of voice that melts women's underwear and moistens them thoroughly.
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    Image of soggy_cheerio soggy_cheerio
    05/29/09

    @Chroma3000: And, I appreciate it when you warm them up for me, so I can come in with the

    heavy artillery.
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