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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. Image search bots? by BWJones · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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

    Hmmm. Interesting. I have seen a number of new MS bots trolling all over our lab site for the past two months grabbing every image they can.

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  2. Re:Search on msdn.microsoft.com by JVert · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If this happens I will personally spider their msdn and rehost it so google can index.

    Frankly I need to get work done and I'm not interested in helping beta testing a microsoft search engine when google already works great.

  3. Re:I doubt this happens by sixteenraisins · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...can you be more SPACIFIC? Exactly *how* is the MSN search flaky?...few people here would require you back it up with (gasp) facts

    Fine.

    To be more "SPACIFIC" (sic), my search results from MSN tend to include dozens (if not more) of "search" sites - pages set up with hundreds of keywords or squatted domain names designed to get hits and redirect you to some type of SPAM site. Yahoo! is starting to get this way as well, although the problem is not as prevalent as it is with MSN.com. I rarely see this happen in a Google-found site.

    There ya go. Facts.

    It's easy to just rattle off the standard anti-M$ line (and get "insightful")...

    Just for good measure, my comments were about the MSN portal; I have no problem using other Microsoft products.

    And to everyone who was more congenial about my "sputtering," my sincere apologies.

    William

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  4. Re:MS search won't work by wonkamaster · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Want an example? Go type "linux" into the msn search engine. I'll wait. Now, compare those results with those garnered from google.
    That's funny! What's great is the fourth option, which provides alternatives to Linux... even before the search engine has provided you results on Linux.

    Now take it a step further and search on "black people ebay". Google results start off by providing links to items offered by black people and about racism. MSN results start off by advertising that it will sell you black people on E-bay (as well as their related items).

    I wonder how long before they fix that little problem!