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

Name?

[matt4077]

Hopefully not amateursexchange.com. Sounds like pain.

Dear Microsoft,

[Anonymous Coward]

Why do you suck so much?

Sincerely,
Anonymous Coward

If Microsoft has a question

[hackstraw]

I have the answer.

NO!

What's the last digit of pi

[Anonymous Coward]

What's the last digit of pi, as best as can determined?

M5 Unit...working

What's happened to The Oracle?

[Pasajero]

I used to get answers for all my life-changing questions from it!

Re:Peer group?

[Woldry]

I think everyone should be a nonconformist!

I have a question too

[Launchpad Mcquack]

Why did you release the 360 knowing it could heat a 10x12 room.