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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. Re:So by MoonFog · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

  2. Microsoft's problem by ArbiterOne · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Microsoft is branching out too much. Without ripping off Google, I don't really see how they can pull this off. In order to reverse the current trend in market share, they'd have to have a better algorithm than Google, a massive ad campaign, and the popular opinion on their side. Oh, and start giving things away for free (Google: Blogger, Picasa, etc.)

    1. Re:Microsoft's problem by irc.goatse.cx+troll · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Yeah! And whats with AOL using AIM as the default messaging service? And aol's mail for the default email? Its so monopolistic! They should license YIM and embed it into aol to be fair to their competition.

      Seriously, its their browser, why shouldnt they make the homepage their search? Moz's default is a moz branded google, how is this different?

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  3. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Insightful

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  4. lack of trust by vinsci · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Microsofts search engine lacks the most important feature: trusted results.

    In the past, it has been shown that Microsoft blocks search results that are contrary to its own business interests.

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  5. Re:3 bad results. by caluml · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I ran those 3 searches a minute before I posted them. If they used to be true, they still are. I am in the UK. Maybe it's messed up over here?

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