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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?"
Out of curiousity I also decided to check out MSN's Sandbox. This is pretty much their upcoming software and features. I was surprised to find pretty much everything they are listing has already been inplemented by Google. Time to play catch up!
NewsBot = news.google.com
MSN Toolbar = Google Toolbar
3 = I'm thinking this is just like Orkut, 3 is software that connects a small group of family and close friends, people who know and trust one another, so they can do fun things together in a whole new way. 3 is a beta test of an innovative application that lets users connect online, extending real-world social interactions.
NetScan = This is Google Groups.. searches USENET newsgroups
The only "original" item on there was TerraServer and that has been up and running for some time now.
I would be interested to see if MS decides to add much of the same features that Google has. Such as phone number searches, unit conversions, etc...Some things that make Google really unique. Perhaps MS could tie the search term, such as an address, to TerraServer will allow a person to get a direct overhead view of that place. However... They need to get some more updated maps to make this useful.
Hmmm.
very similar to how it turns up for a seach on Linux. All sites that have a *.linux*.* type domain address.
Is this their new search scheme? Type in a word and we'll return matching domain names? That's awesome technology!
Casual Games/Downloads
about the performance and quality of the results of the search preview over at Webmaster World, including some feedback from MS employees.
Just to balance things... http://labs.yahoo.com/demo/nutch/
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Gee, one billion pages and only 15 results for Linux? Why am I not surprised?
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With a little "after-the-fact" research I found This Slashdot Article
Sorry, no results were found containing "skydiving"
I did a search for cheesecake and got 0 entries. I tried a couple of minutes later and got loads. Evidently not very stable yet, but it is only in beta, so not too surprising. My guess would be incorrect use of a static/global variable.
Results 1-1 containing "php"
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Gentoo - no results
Redhat - 1 result redhat.com
Suse many results
slackware - many results
mandrake - mandrake.com 4th on list
XFree86 - adult content
Xfree - no results
linux - no results
Seems rigged to me
LINUX
'Nuff said.
-Vic
Why would you do something like this? There are going to be people that use Microsoft's search engine. Your site will not be indexed by Microsoft's search engine. Consequently, these people will not find your site.
Because Microsoft's webcrawlers are bandwidth hogs. I wasn't going to block msnbot, but then I realised it was sucking up over 10% of my monthly bandwidth allowance (okay, so I only have a gigabyte a month, but even so!). Compare that to Google, who barely figure on my logs, even though my site ranks pretty highly with the right search terms, and I think you'll see why people might be tempted to block MSN...
As a C# programmer, I frequently run searches on google with the keyword "C#" in the search. Google does a good job with it.
Microsoft's search engine on the other hand seems to toss out the "#" character which makes it pretty useless. Kind of funny given who created C#.
Guess I'll be sticking with google.
Searching for "Microsoft" gives 15 and searching for "microsoft" gives 1. ;)
May be there is some stricmp/strcmp confusion.
From msn:
cat returns "about 57,500,000" google pages.I tried to search for 'filip 600' - a model RC sailplane I'm flying now, and new MS engine came up with several directly relevant pages that I have never seen on Google. So far - extremely impressive!