MS Search Engine Preview

**Stalemate** · July 5th, 2004, 12:44 PM

Click the link above to access the MSN Search Engine

This article from ARSTechnica says it all:

Microsoft offers a peek at new search engine

Posted July 1, 2004 @ 1:28 PM
by Eric Bangeman

Microsoft has taken the wraps off its new homegrown search engine, offering a search page with a Google-inspired, minimalist interface. Development of the new engine, begun after Microsoft decided not to buy or license other search technologies, seems to have taken place at a rather brisk pace, although its index is not yet on par with its competitors. You will recall that last Fall, rumors of negotiations between Microsoft and Google began to surface.

Along with the Search Technology Preview, as Microsoft is calling it, comes a revamped MSN web search tool. MSN's search is currently powered by Yahoo, but will no longer utilize Yahoo's paid inclusion program, where sites pay to be included in search results. In addition, paid-search results will be limited to three per page, giving noncommercial results a higher priority than they previously had. MSN plans to continue licensing Yahoo's search engine until its own search technology is ready for release.

The ability to search your hard drive, network, and the Internet has become a major area of focus for developers. Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo have been locked in a search-engine rivalry for some time, which has Microsoft in the curious position of using one of their competitor's technology and paid listings at the present. For its part, Google is moving its search engine from the Internet to your Windows desktop with the development of a local computer search utility. Microsoft would rather have its users both on the desktop and World Wide Web use their own solution rather than Google's (or anyone else's) as the web search market is immensely valuable in its own right, and improved search capability will be a focal point of Longhorn once it ships.

**Stalemate** · July 5th, 2004, 04:04 PM

Looks quite a bit like MS "innovated" again by using a clean, pure interface not unlike that of another well-know search engine...

**NooNoo** · July 5th, 2004, 04:22 PM

harrumph...

type in without quotes
"code 31 easy cd"
in both google and this search.

ms have a very very very long way to go. Hell they can't even get a decent search going on their mskb, what chance the entire internet?

**Stalemate** · July 5th, 2004, 04:25 PM

Underwhelmed, Noo?

**ilovetheusers** · July 5th, 2004, 04:31 PM

Wow!

Not much of a shock but the M$ site really sucks ***. Was every single link an add?

**Cave_Dweller** · July 5th, 2004, 07:50 PM

Wow, I hope that's the "Millenium Edition"

**TechZ** · July 6th, 2004, 01:31 AM

Originally Posted by NooNoo

harrumph...

type in without quotes
"code 31 easy cd"
in both google and this search.

ms have a very very very long way to go. Hell they can't even get a decent search going on their mskb, what chance the entire internet?

I'm sure comments like that will get u the Google MVP

**rgharper** · July 6th, 2004, 05:13 AM

Originally Posted by Cave_Dweller

Wow, I hope that's the "Millenium Edition"

Search is one of those things I don't think Microsoft will ever get right, unless they buy out someone who already has.

Hey, -ed, ya listening? I'm bad-mouthing Microsoft!

**NooNoo** · July 6th, 2004, 05:20 AM

Originally Posted by rgharper

Search is one of those things I don't think Microsoft will ever get right, unless they buy out someone who already has.

I sincerely hope not, they tinker and tinker and end up with something that neither one thing nor the other. Besides, they would forget to feed the pigeons.

You know what a horse designed by a committee is don't you?

**TechZ** · July 6th, 2004, 05:27 AM

Originally Posted by NooNoo

I sincerely hope not, they tinker and tinker and end up with something that neither one thing nor the other. Besides, they would forget to feed the pigeons.

You know what a horse designed by a committee is don't you?

a jacass?

**NooNoo** · July 6th, 2004, 06:26 AM

nope

**+Daemon+** · July 6th, 2004, 09:39 AM

looks ugly

**Stalemate** · July 6th, 2004, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by NooNoo

...You know what a horse designed by a committee is don't you?

Camel.

**inferno_gn** · July 6th, 2004, 11:18 AM

Hi there,

My ideal search engine...

- Delete dead sites after the site is gone for over a week.
- Ability to remove fake sites (some are just to attract users to their site, like MP3s, but they don't even have any).
- Easy to submit sites to the listing.
- A report system, so users have the ability to reuqest that a particular site (dead, fake) to be remove.

Ju Leon...

**rgharper** · July 6th, 2004, 05:51 PM

Originally Posted by NooNoo

I sincerely hope not, they tinker and tinker and end up with something that neither one thing nor the other. Besides, they would forget to feed the pigeons.

You know what a horse designed by a committee is don't you?

Elephant, isn't it?

[EDIT - oops, wrong smiley the first time]