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Microsoft Offers A Peek At New Search Engine
ObsessiveMathsFreak writes "The Inquirer is reporting that Microsoft is offering a preview of its new search technology. The search engine preview has a minimalist interface, similar to Google. Microsoft claims over one billion web pages searched, but admits the fact that searching is a little slow. This technology hasn't yet been incorporated into MSN Search, though the site claims it eventually will be. In related news, the Financial Times is reporting that Microsoft are to improve the regular MSN Search site by removing paid advertisements from regular internet searches, a move that will cost them 'tens of millions of dollars.' Are the Search Engine Wars finally upon us?"
What is important is that a search for litigious bastards still returns the SCO Group.
KARMA TAG! You're it.
Hey, at least microsoft did one thing right.
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We Apprentice Developers and Designers
Looks like it still thinks that xfree86 is "adult content"
q =x free86&FORM=SMCRT
http://techpreview.search.msn.com/results.aspx?
...they'll have a "Microooooooosoft" graphic at the bottom of the screen to allow you navigate between pages of results...
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true." - Homer Simpson
Search Error
MSN Search is temporarily unable to process your request.
Please try again in a few minutes.
EID: f:2114719238 - 1041:1041:10004:1059
HC: 71d61b16
Linux just to p*ss off Bill, courtesy of all his friends at /.
Mr. Smoove
Search Error
MSN Search is temporarily unable to process your request.
Please try again in a few minutes.
EID: f:618926422 - 1041:1041:10004:1059
HC: 71d61b13
Search ErrorMSN Search is temporarily unable to process your request. Please try again in a few minutes. EID: f:1658889542 - 1041:1041:10004:1059 HC: 71d61b14
It took nearly 30 seconds to return results for "gates balmer anal".
Sorry, no results were found containing "microsoft fud"
Okay, random test. Search for "fisherman":
Sorry, no results were found containing "fishermen"
C'mon...I mean copying and pasting isn't that hard now is it?
Ha ha.
XML causes global warming.
Try it! The best result is in the blue box at the top!
3 [threedegrees.com] = I'm thinking this is just like Orkut
And quite possibly uses the same code...
Casual Games/Downloads
.... Microsoft will be going on "tour" to say how much better their search engine is compared to google.
.. a search term. Please reboot to see your results."
Results 1 - 10 of about 577,000 for windows sucks. (0.26 seconds)
...and in MSN Search preview...
Sorry, no results were found containing "windows sucks" Can they really claim to have indexed so many pages? :-)
The "cue the foo posts in 3, 2, 1..." posts will commence with no subsequent foo posts in 3, 2, 1...
So much for 100 millions. Instead they would have given the same money to google to remove the paid sidebar ads and iframe the results.
No Sig for you.!
They don't even have search results for:
... even Google does ...
"what is the average airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?"
Geeze
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My guess would be incorrect use of a static/global variable.
Much thanks! I've been trying for weeks to figure our what's wrong.
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Best Windows Freeware
On the MSFT engine:
"bill gates asshole" = no results
On Google:
"bill gates asshole" = 29,000 results.
Odd.
It asked what I was looking for, but wasn't able to help:
Sorry, no results were found containing "something better than windows"
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Microsoft doesn't want to be incompliant with all the rfc's
they just can't find 'm;
Sorry, no results were found containing "http rfc"
Explains a LOT
yeah, typical microsoft error message. no explanation, just a meaningful hex number.
my favorite microsoft error of all time is:
"Not enough memory or disk space to complete the"
I tried Litigious Bastards, and it came up with no results. Maybe SCO is giving up!
Speak for yourself.
Another one bites the dust
SEARCH TIPS
1) Check your spelling. Are the words in your query spelled correctly?
2) Try using synonyms. Maybe the site you're looking for uses slightly different words, like "film" instead of "movie".
3) Make your search more general. For example, instead of using specific product names, try using the generic product category.
Okay, it worked on the third go. I guess you have to repeatedly ask it the same question before you get an answer, kind of like cross-examining a Microsoft executive in court.
for this search, err 2nd searchresult.
MSGoogle/1.0
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Real men are brave enough to use insecure browsers.
Is this the first time that a Microsoft site has been Slashdotted? What is the world coming to?
With all these people claiming that their first hit doesn't work, but subsequent hits do, could Microsoft be building their search with our queries? Tha more you make a request for a specific topic, the more results it feels that ineeds to find. The less important (queried) results don't show any results initially. So if we keep this up, Linux, Suse, and Porn wil be the most archived things the search engine knows how to find.
Uber-corporation Microsoft (c) announced a new search service today. Microsoft bigwig Steve Ballmer had this to say:
"Our new search engine is the ultimate in modern search technology. It indexes the entire internet and stores it in a Microsoft Access (tm) database. Users querying the engine for a given term (such as "linux") are given links to a random assortment of possibly-related sites."
(interviewer) Google's search is lauded as highly relevant and lightening fast. Yet you've innovated and taken a different course, returning random results. Why is this better than Google's method?
(S.B.) "Well, you have to keep in mind that our concern is the average windows user. We have discovered a flaw in Google's technology; the heavy reliance on research, strong programming and intelligence, while novel, has resulted in a system where relevant, useful results are returned very quickly."
(interviewer) ..and your method is better than this because...
(S.B.) "Ok. When someone searches on Google, they are limited to only relevant items, because that's what Google has latched onto. The weakness in Google's method is that most pages are not returned, because a machine has decided they are irrelevant. The new Microsoft (c) paradigm is that we let the USER decide what's relevant and what's not; the machine makes no determination of what is or is not relevant. See how it's better? Look, 99% of all computers in the world run Windows. And people don't mind rebooting, not at all. We've added value to this model, someone's got to do the work, why not just dump it on the user, let them take the blame? My porsche won't go any slower because someone else had to do extra work. That's the beauty of the Microsoft way (tm)! We let other people do all the work, then we take the credit."
(interviewer) But most people say they like Google specifically *because* it returns relevant terms so quickly.. aren't you just dumping all the work of searching back on the user's lap?
(S.B.) "You clearly are an enemy of innovation. Look, People are smarter than machines. Therefore, since a person can only view one page at a time, a person must view every existing web page to know whether or not their guess of which page is most relevant, is in fact true. And so, our search engine is better, because we don't prevent the user--"
(interviewer) Isn't this all just a semantic argument against your economic competitor and technological superior, Google?
(S.B.) "This interview is over."
A Microsoft Public Relations Representative did note that search terms pertaining to the purchase of goods and services did in fact not return random results, and in point of fact return only a single link, to www.microsoft.com.
"A witty saying proves nothing." ~Voltaire
"d'Oh!" ~Homer
Sure, there's another source. They also get a lot from people logging out of hotmail. :-)
Austin is more fun than Dallas.
I just ran a search on Microsoft's new search engine and I accidentally crashed the internet. My bad.