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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:Dutch? by Hognoxious · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    What's wrong with Dutch? Can't read it? Most people in this world can't read English either...
    Not as most as the ones who can't read Dutch.
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  2. Re:So by Jabberu · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I'ts clear we need a new moderation, "horrifying" is missing.

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  3. Re:So by loconet · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They should interviewed in National Geographic or something..

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  4. King of the Hill of Search Engines? by the_mad_poster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That search ain't right....

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  5. Re:Tech Preview? by IamTheRealMike · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Mwahahahah, not for me. For me the first result for "porn" is reportchildporn.com

    I bet that'll go down like a lead balloon ...

  6. Re:this article is oooooold by mysticwhiskey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And you win this month's "Google: Your sig does not compute" award!

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  7. Re:Hmmm... by goatan · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    As a weird simile, do you read the Good Beer Guide, Ian? It's a publication by CAMRA and the choices are put in based on local branch involvement. In other words, pubs that people use and like get put in there. And IMO anyway, it's the best. Occassionally you get a duff one, but overall it's really good.

    Actually i do it's a perfect example of a guide with unpaid adverts and there increased accuracy.

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