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Microsoft To Launch 'Question' Site

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bandwagon-getting-crowded dept.

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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  1. Perhaps generic questions by mrowton · · Score: 3, Informative

    Has anyone ever used one of these answer services?

    Its probably more suited toward generic questions than technical questions.

    Seems like niche forums/mailing lists are where most of the action is. Not sure what search engines are trying to accomplish here.

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    1. Re:Perhaps generic questions by hotpepper · · Score: 2, Informative

      I've been using http://www.answerbag.com/ since 2004 for my Q&A needs.

  2. Re:umm...it's time has come? by Woldry · · Score: 2, Informative

    Whoops, forgot the URL: http://www.knowitnow.org/

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  3. Experts Exchange Blows by VxJasonxV · · Score: 3, Informative

    Experts Exchange is the most worthless tech site ever, for 1 reason:
    Their policy.

    I don't like seeing your results on my google searches, and teasing me with a question, and no answer.
    I don't want to register, I don't like 'hit and run' registering.
    I don't like you.

    So what I did instead... is signed up for a google account, and filtered your site out of all of my searches.
    COMPLETELY.

    And guess what I'm doing?
    I'm getting my answers elsewhere. For free. With no, god knows what privacy problem, registrations.

    Experts Exchange... eat me.

  4. Re:Where to start? by VJ42 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I typed your exact phrase without the quotes into google, and got this: http://www.baking911.com/cookies/chocolate_chip.ht m on the first page.

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  5. Another fine example. by twitter · · Score: 2, Informative
    I forgot to link in this study which showed M$ manipulating their results to favor IIS. The silly games those people play.

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