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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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Needs some fine tuning before it's ready for the prime time, me thinks.
Don't *all* search engines have to have, hmm, some kind of algorithm in them?
Marketing speak confuses me! Please stop!
You would be amazed. This week I discovered someone in my office who knew nothing about google.
Oh, Edmund, can it be true? that I hold here, in my mortal hand, a nugget of purest green?
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.
There is no sanctuary. There is no sanctuary. SHUT UP! There is no shut up. There is no shut up.
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.
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.
The msnbot has been around for many months. I have seen many complaints about the amount of bandwidth it uses and I know many web masters (me included) have blocked it's access because of this so I dunno how useful the search results will be. I've seen reports of it sucking gigabytes off a site in a day, and then doing exactly the same again the next day, which is really quite serious for those people who have a reasonably small bandwidth limit on their web space.
:(
For me it was sucking several gig a month off my site, and was obviously very badly coded since it was refetching the same pages over and over (cachable pages, non-cachable pages and 404's). So in the end I gave up and outright blocked the damned thing - yet another bit of shoddy MS code out to break the internet..
http://blog.nexusuk.org