It is relevant, to your comment, because you compared it to Vista's built-in search (i.e., current functionality) and said MS was talking about it in 2003 (while they were talking about a comparatively different thing).
I think I understand what you mean, but, in my view, there's a big (and really relevant) gap between talking about "science-fiction" stuff (which Google is also very guilty of, in other realms) and actually delivering a first-class product, like GDS in this case.
Compared to Vista's built-in search (ie: what Microsoft were talking about back in 2003, a year before GDS was even in beta) [...] I'm really not trying to troll, but wasn't that based on the DB-like filesystem, which didn't make it into Vista?
In the case of Live the first result was a photo studio run by Galen and Barbara Powell. For Google the first result was much more relevant: a link to the University of Virgina Health System which talked about the medical practice from the past of which Galen is listed in the links.
A second test: I want to find the photo studio of Galen and Barbara Powell. I type "Galen" into both search engines, and, voila Microsoft's "algorithms" are amazingly more intelligent than Google's.
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It is relevant, to your comment, because you compared it to Vista's built-in search (i.e., current functionality) and said MS was talking about it in 2003 (while they were talking about a comparatively different thing).
I think I understand what you mean, but, in my view, there's a big (and really relevant) gap between talking about "science-fiction" stuff (which Google is also very guilty of, in other realms) and actually delivering a first-class product, like GDS in this case.
Most certainly I'm missing something, but what does this mean for people whose work actually involves talking about B12 or other vitamins?
In the case of Live the first result was a photo studio run by Galen and Barbara Powell. For Google the first result was much more relevant: a link to the University of Virgina Health System which talked about the medical practice from the past of which Galen is listed in the links.
A second test: I want to find the photo studio of Galen and Barbara Powell. I type "Galen" into both search engines, and, voila Microsoft's "algorithms" are amazingly more intelligent than Google's.