MSN Search Team Blogs, Admits Bugs
Date: 2004-11-11 Source: ClickZ
In perhaps Microsoft's quickest ever response to a product flaw, the MSN search team has apologized for intermittent errors in the beta MSN search engine launched today. The format? A new blog. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
MSN's Latest Search Beta Launched
Date: 2004-11-11 Source: InternetNews.com
MSN released the latest version of its homegrown search technology on Thursday (beta.search.msn.com), offering multiple ways to narrow results, including providing local results and natural language search. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
New MSN Search Beta Gets Local, Personalized
Date: 2004-11-11 Source: ClickZ
The most interesting aspects of the launch are the search refinement tools, which have local and personalization elements. Search Near Me lets users tailor searches to a geographic location, which they specify in their settings. If the searcher doesn't indicate a location, Microsoft returns results based upon the user's IP address. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Dogpile Adding Topix.net News Headlines
Date: 2004-11-10 Source: Search Engine Journal
Topix.net announced a deal with InfoSpace to add Topix.net’s news headlines to InfoSpace’s Dogpile metasearch service, and also to help Dogpile’s new IntelliFind technology determine when news content is likely to be relevant to users’ Web search queries. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Microsoft Ready to Rumble on Search Beta
Date: 2004-11-10 Source: InternetNews.com
Company officials, such as Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer, have promised investors and customers that the company's MSN division will take search capabilities farther than what is currently on the market. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
From factoids to facts
Date: 2004-08-27 Source: Economist.com
What is the next stage in the evolution of internet search engines? ...the real prize will surely go to whoever can use the web to deliver a straight answer to a straight question. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Watch out for Microsoft
Date: 2004-08-03 Source: CBS.MarketWatch.com
Why is it important to note that it took Microsoft less than a year to build a search product, that's looking pretty darn compelling? Because the gorilla might be out of its cage next year. And that's just something to keep in mind as the bidding for Google's IPO is set to begin this Wednesday. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Orchestrating New Search With MSN
Date: 2004-07-30 Source: ClickZ
Microsoft's MSN division lifted the wraps off new search technology that can pluck data from the vast depths of a PC's hard drive in blazing speed, and promises to go where no search engine has gone before. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Can Microsoft Beat Google?
Date: 2004-07-29 Source: Search Engine Guide
While most within the industry, myself included, don't expect Microsoft to mount a true challenge to the quality of Google's search results any time soon, the reality is that they may not have to. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Microsoft goes in search of Google
Date: 2004-07-29 Source: FT.com
Jennifer Laycock, editor of Search Engine Guide, an online industry publication, believes Microsoft will need at least one year to catch up with the quality of Google's search results. But she points out that its MSN portal already ranks as one of the five most popular internet destinations, providing a "built-in audience" for its search service. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
MSN fires up search engine
Date: 2004-07-29 Source: Australian IT
MSN is investing $US5 billion ($7 billion) to create a search revolution where users will be able to pose questions and receive real answers - all without leaving the comfort of the MSN web site and the reach of its advertisers. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
MSN Previews Personalized News Search
Date: 2004-07-28 Source: SearchDay
NewsBot, the personalized news search and aggregation service that MSN has been testing in a number of countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa has gone live in the United States. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Microsoft Goes After Google News
Date: 2004-07-27 Source: PCWorld.com
In what appears to be an effort to grab headlines from Internet rival Google, Microsoft introduced a new beta service to the MSNBC.com Web site this week which offers visitors the ability to search for and receive personalized news. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
