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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. 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.

  2. 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!

  3. 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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  4. 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.