Microsoft To Launch Homegrown Search Engine

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 9, 2004 @11:50PM 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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THE bot? by knipknap · 2004-11-10 00:08 · Score: 5, Informative

I wonder whether that's the bot that has been scanning my website for three days by attempting to "crawl" through all session ids and causing more then 1 GByte of traffic.

"msnbot/0.11 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)"

It was only stoppable by blocking the IP. (robots.txt was only read once before it started) Great, smart bot, really.