Microsoft Ready to Prove Its Search Stuff
Date: 2005-01-30 Source: eWeek
Weiner views the MSN search switchover as the beginning of Microsoft's longer-term bet on search as a fundamental technology across its products. Where the company can grab more search market share is by attracting search users through its other products, such as other MSN services and Microsoft's Office software. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
MSN Grows, Profits
Date: 2005-01-28 Source: ClickZ
Microsoft's MSN division pulled in $588 million in revenues in the second quarter of the company's 2005 fiscal year, resulting in operating income of $130,000. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
MSN Removes Beta Tag from Search Site
Date: 2005-01-20 Source: Search Engine Guide
MSN going live with their own search engine is huge news with as many unknown implications as known ones. Its presence will challenge many basic assumptions about SEO and will play a large hand in determining the future of the search industry itself. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Working Together Against Blog Spam
Date: 2005-01-18 Source: msnsearch's WebLog
Over the coming weeks, our MSNBot crawler will start respecting [the rel="nofollow"] tag, and sometime after that MSN Spaces will start to support this as well. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Gates taking a seat in your den
Date: 2005-01-05 Source: News.com
The commitment we made is to build unique search technology across the board. And if you look at the Microsoft Research things that we've had breakthroughs in--natural language, document analysis, personalization, image analysis, language translation--our research agenda will allow us to take today's search from ourselves and Google, and make what we have today look like a joke. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Will MSN Use PPC to Challenge Google?
Date: 2005-01-05 Source: Search Engine Guide
How will a PPC product help Microsoft challenge Google and Yahoo! in the search wars? After all, no one selects a search engine based on their PPC offerings. That said, search engines rely on earnings from the PPC programs to help fund improvements to their organic search products. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Yes, It Is a Search War Now
Date: 2004-12-15 Source: Microsoft Monitor
The real threat remains the Web and how a vendor like Google has found a new way to exploit the Internet's utility beyond Windows. Additionally, consumer interest in digital content and non-PC devices and the possibility another platform might rise to dominance has to scare the hell out of some Microsoft executives. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Announcing MSN Desktop Search
Date: 2004-12-13 Source: msnsearch's WebLog
With Desktop Search you can quickly find files, emails or pictures on your computer. We hope you find it’s not just a fast way to search, it’s a better way to get your everyday tasks done. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
MSN Desktop debuts – integration helps, but complexity hinders
Date: 2004-12-13 Source: Charlene Li's Blog
Overall, I found MSN’s desktop search to be fast and complete, if somewhat complex to manage. I believe that both MSN and Google (as well as their future competitors) will all develop more robust desktop search that can handle multiple files and give users flexibility and control over the search results. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
MSN Joins the Desktop Search Fray
Date: 2004-12-13 Source: SearchDay
Microsoft has launched its long anticipated desktop search application, and it's packed with promising features and tools that make it a strong contender coming out the gate. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
How do you spell Levenshtein?
Date: 2004-12-06 Source: msnsearch's WebLog
Doing a good job of helping Search users to correct misspelled queries is super important for two main reasons: a) 5 billion crawled docs and a bleeding edge ranking algorithm can’t do much if the query isn’t spelled right and b) more than 10% of all searches are misspelled. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
MSN Search Now Taking Submissions
Date: 2004-11-19 Source: ClickZ
Continuing on its new path of openness and transparency, the MSN Search blog last night posted some hints on how a site can be listed in MSN Search's index, along with links to a new help page for site owners. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
The New and Improved MSN Search
Date: 2004-11-16 Source: iMedia Connection
For most search marketers, the new and different search means developing a keen understanding of how MSN's crawling and indexing technology will interact with client's Web sites. For the rest of the human population, winning hearts and minds with more efficient and relevant tools is the order of today and every day. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
MSN Desktop Search Images Surface
Date: 2004-11-15 Source: eWeek
Screen shots of an early version of MSN's desktop search application began circulating on the Web on Monday, indicating that Microsoft Corp.'s Internet division plans to release a product with deep connections to Windows. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Why Microsoft Doesn't Need to Compete
Date: 2004-11-12 Source: Search Engine Guide
All Microsoft has to do to dominate in this market is to convince the average user that their search is at least comparable to Google, if not better. Remember. I am talking the AVERAGE user. Not us, who are in the industry and can prove one way or another which engine produces the best results. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
As Promised, MSN Releases Sincere Search
Date: 2004-11-11 Source: Traffick
The MSN product clearly aims high, right at where search enthusiasts live, offering advanced features right out of the gate without making the interface confusing for the average user. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
