bigearz - 4:21 pm on Nov 25, 2005 (gmt 0)

harry_wales and tigger:

I concur with your observations about .co.uk - for just about every category the relevancy of results for just about every term remains catastrophic.

Even when our highly relevant page for a search term is readily available and spidered, Google will list a less relevant page from our site instead. At about 190 in the results.

Related thought: Microsoft was taken to court about its dominant position in the operating systems marketplace. Surely, at least in Europe, Google should face the same scrutiny? It accounts for 80% of all searches in Europe, yet provides terrible results and is completely unaccountable.

(I've only ever received useless automated responses to email enquiries, and a phone call to the Googleplex was put through to a voicemail message that, in as many words, said individual webmasters were far too unimportant to disturb the company's terribly important plans to take over the planet.)

I'm still hoping Bill Gates will massively invest in promoting MSN Search across Europe through clever marketing rather than TV and poster campaigns. Google's monopoly cannot be allowed to continue while the service they provide is so dire. But what can be done about it, practically?