Microsoft To Launch 'Question' Site

prostoalex writes "Microsoft will try to make the search process more social, Business Week reports, by creating a question-and-answer Web site. They certainly are entering a quite crowded niche." From the article: "It's one of the many ways that Web companies, including Yahoo and Google, are trying to set themselves apart with social search, a targeted pursuit of information that's influenced by the preferences of a person's peer group. Social search is a method whose time has come, Osmer says. Microsoft research shows that generic search engines can't answer 50% of queries asked, he says. The new tool, whose name he didn't disclose, will be 'one of the larger projects for us' this year, Osmer says."

Comments

They sure are trying hard

[sl4shd0rk]

I wonder if microsoft has finally met a market they cannot buy, strongarm, or sue themselves into. Seems they are worried about being left behind and trying to wedge themselves into the search engine market any way they can. Maybe they are just finding it harder to make people think they are the only game in town.

Re:If Microsoft has a question

[app13b0y]

Dear hackstraw,

since you are a /. member, we have to ask.
have you ever been laid?
are you even straight?

oh wait, you already gave us the answer, you're a gay virgin.
what a stereotypical /. user

thanks for sharing some of your most intimate secrets,
Microsoft

Re:Unanswerable questions?

[Anonymous Coward]

"How can I configure so that it doesn't crash at inconvenient times" - - by deranged unix nut (20524) on Saturday April 15, @10:59AM (#15135398)

Linux monkey - if you had 1/2 a brain with an IQ greater than your present amount (10 below plantlife), you could manage it. Most others seem to be able to, so your lame "Pro-Linux/UNIX F.U.D." attempts are just that - bullcrap.

"so that it doesn't need a dozen security updates every month" - by deranged unix nut (20524) on Saturday April 15, @10:59AM (#15135398)

That happens because of lamos like yourself who run a 2nd class operating system that only runs 1/2 of the hardware and software Windows NT-based OS do.

You losers are SO upset your 1/2 baked "OS" hasn't done what you always are saying it will, which is take over as the most used OS there is. We've all been hearing your lies for a decade or more now, and still they prove falsehoods.

It's good that in your angst your kind hacks/cracks away @ Windows based OS, because you only do Microsoft a favor really!

Thanks!

You find the holes, and MS' patches 'em fast.

AND, let's point out that your precious UNIX and Linux (and other unix variants) showed more security holes and vulnerabilities on them and their wares than Windows NT-based OS combined in 2005, via Secunia, shall we?

LINUX/UNIX TOPS CHARTS FOR VULNERABILITIES IN 2005:

http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/01/05/0027219.shtml?t id=172&tid=218

QUOTE EXCERPT:

"Linux/Unix (including Mac OS) had almost three times the number of OS-specific vulnerabilities reported last year compared to Microsoft Windows."

Argue with the numbers & facts + findings from a gov't. organization that specializes in that area... you'll see it's better than your F.U.D. attempts & puny attempts @ it.

(So much for that puny attempt @ F.U.D. spreading again)

"and so that it will work like marketing claims it will?" - by deranged unix nut (20524) on Saturday April 15, @10:59AM (#15135398)

Oh, you mean like Windows NT-based OS supporting more hardwares and drivers than Linux and UNIX by far, AND having more available higher quality software for more purposes possible than can be found on the loser's platform in UNIX/Linux?

"Where can I find linux?" - by deranged unix nut (20524) on Saturday April 15, @10:59AM (#15135398)

Uhm, in the "loser's section" of the store, where there is nearly no software available on the shelves for it. LOL, pack all the 1/2 baked wares you want to into your distros, and STILL you are in last place no matter what.

Hilarious - no matter WHAT You losers do? You can't seem to win, you don't get it. You're the 2nd-class citizens of computing.

"Why does Vista look so much like OS X?" - by deranged unix nut (20524)
on Saturday April 15, @10:59AM (#15135398)

Your name fits you - you must be deranged, or blind. It doesn't look a damn thing like it!

Why does KDE look like Windows desktop though?

LOL!

(You've been out-thought, out-smarted, & just outclassed by a Windows user Linux boy... just like Microsoft has done to your FREE OS, which is hilarious - even IF Linux is free? It still hasn't taken over in more than a decade... why is that??)