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Microsoft To Launch Homegrown Search Engine

Posted by timothy on from the humboldt-county dept.

Mr. Christmas Lights writes "While Google is currently the king-of-the-hill in search engines, Microsoft continues to lag in market share and uses Yahoo's technology/results. But Cnet reports that they'll launch on Thursday their own homegrown search engine , although it appears this is mostly a face-lift (despite a year of development and $100 million investment). According to Bill Gates, they 'will introduce a homegrown web crawler and algorithmic search engine ... later this year,' which is almost certainly their tech preview (you can look at this now) -- but will that be ready for prime-time in less than two months?"

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  1. About time by lightdarkness · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've seen their cralwer (their new one I presume) around for at least a month, without any indication on where the results were being shown. At least I have another spider to add to my list of robots that steal my bandwidth.

  2. So by jbartone · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who's actually going to use this instead of Google?

    1. Re:So by zakezuke · · Score: 5, Funny

      Since it'll probably end up being default start-up page in IE, lots.

      Fortunately IE has enough in the way of exploits so the default start-up page gets hijacked often enough.

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    2. Re:So by Titusdot+Groan · · Score: 5, Funny
      Did your company fire them?

      I've got a running gag with my team that if I can find the answer to their problem in 3 google searches I get their pay for that week. The number of dumb question I get is WAY down.

  3. Search for Windows..... by alistair · · Score: 5, Funny

    No Results Found

    Needs some fine tuning before it's ready for the prime time, me thinks.

  4. Prediction for most popular queries on day 1... by seanellis · · Score: 4, Funny

    "mozilla firefox" download
    google

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  5. Algorithmic search engine? WTF? by jagripino · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't *all* search engines have to have, hmm, some kind of algorithm in them?

    Marketing speak confuses me! Please stop!

  6. Best search engine by Libor+Vanek · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just try to search "best search engine" and enjoy what comes out:
    http://www.search.msn.com/results.aspx?FORM=SRCHWB &q=best%20search%20engine

  7. Search Results by chia_monkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh my. I can just see the search results now:

    Search entry: "Antarctic Penguin"

    Search Result: A paperclip pops up on your screen and says "It appears you are searching for a penguin. Did you know Microsoft servers are cheaper to run than Linux? Would you like to buy one now?"

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