Microsoft To Launch Homegrown Search Engine

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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[Humpinate]

Well.... The real question isn't who will use it, but who will use it WITHOUT ACTUALLY LOADING IT.......Let's see, a "browser" that connects for you, filters your input and "protects" you by censoring and "digitally checking" your music and images for copyright infringement. Then to be "safe" prevents you from "searching" for those nasty warez sites, and MP3 sites and cracker/hacker
sites.......The list goes on. Big Brother needs to STAY THE FUCK OUT OF MY BOXEN !!!!!

Great

[floydman]

Now we can have a blue screen (BSOD) on my browser, as if the OS wasnt enough.

Good results

[gnoos]

I typed in 'microsoft sucks' and got very relevant results