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Microsoft Works on Search Capabilities

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the here-comes-clippy dept.

bl8n8r writes "Microsoft is betting millions that someday it will be as well known for search as Google is. Some of its efforts to simplify search on the Internet will soon be in place. The new version of Microsoft's MSN Internet service, available this winter, will include a tool for retrieving digital photos based on images in the pictures. For example, users can ask their computers to retrieve all pictures that include a specific person's face or background."

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  1. Search on msdn.microsoft.com by julesh · · Score: 5, Informative

    Microsoft? Search experts?

    Has anybody here used the awful search interface they put up on MSDN a couple of months ago? Its hideous. It takes twice as long to find anything as its predecessor did. Googling with site:msdn.microsoft.com is often the only way of finding some documents (I had to do that to find out any information on programming NT Services without using .NET...)

    Searching for a name of one of their programs ("dr watson") doesn't turn up any information on it in the knowledge base. You have to search for 'drwtsn32' to get anywhere, despite the full name of the program being mentioned in the articles about it.

    Yeah, great search interface. Really inspires my confidence.

    1. Re:Search on msdn.microsoft.com by roach2002 · · Score: 5, Informative

      http://www.google.com/microsoft/

      Search all microsoft related websites, microsoft.com and others such as www.outlookexchange.com too.

  2. The URL has changed by Eponymous+Cowboy · · Score: 5, Informative

    CNN moved the story ... the link from the article is 404'd.

    The article is now here.

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  3. Re:let's illustrate : by a+low-flying+penguin · · Score: 5, Informative

    The first 4 results for search for "Linux" on MSN are :

    1 - Amazon
    2 - Ebay
    3 - Introducing Linux by tech.msn.com: "Red Hat 9.0 is a boon for those who already use it, but it's too expensive to warrant a switch from Windows."

    4 - Alternatives to Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP : "Learn about the Microsoft alternatives and how to move to them from open source products."
    (www.microsoft.com/serviceproviders/mi gration)

    Parent was exagerating the place of commercials on MSN: propaganda reduce advertising space a lot.