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."

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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