Ruling clouds plans for search functions
Date: 2004-03-25 Source: The Mercury News
The European Commission's decision to force Microsoft to "unbundle" its media player from Windows raises questions about the software maker's plans to integrate search technology into its next operating system. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
All the news that's fit for searching
Date: 2004-03-24 Source: SiliconValley.com
Using principles of artificial intelligence and information retrieval, NewsJunkie keeps track of what a reader has already seen. It reorganizes news stories to rank those with the most new information at the top and push those with repetitive information to the bottom, or filter them out entirely. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
MSN Demarcates Paid, Organic Search
Date: 2004-03-22 Source: ClickZ
MSN decided to make its changes based on the results of a series of consumer tests on user satisfaction and search relevancy with various user interfaces, according to Karen Redetzki, product manager for MSN. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
MSN to shake up search ads
Date: 2004-03-19 Source: News.com
Microsoft's Web portal plans to label its paid-search listings more clearly and to showcase ads sold by its own staff rather than by Yahoo-owned partner Overture. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
The Microsoft-Google incident
Date: 2004-02-10 Source: ZDNet
Microsoft is one of the few companies to pose competition in markets dominated by one company. Few bother to challenge Google in Internet search technology, in spite of last year’s estimated billion-dollar revenue haul. Microsoft is "bothering," serving the same important roles its serves in other markets, which is sole competitor to a dominant player. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Microsoft not ready to battle with Google
Date: 2004-02-09 Source: The Seattle Times
Although Microsoft has stopped short of threatening to cut off Google's air supply, Google's prominence has led Silicon Valley partisans to cast this as an updated version of the mid-1990s Netscape-Microsoft "browser wars." [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Microsoft's Robert Scoble Discusses Search Engine Technology
Date: 2004-02-04 Source: Search Engine Guide
For Internet searches, I see social behavior analysis tools like Technorati becoming far more important. Why? Because people want different ways to see potentially relevant results. I also see that search engines that search just specific types of content (like Feedster) are going to be more important. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
The coming search wars
Date: 2004-02-02 Source: News.com
At the World Economic Forum in Switzerland last week, Microsoft, the software heavyweight, and Google, the scrappy Internet search company, eyed each other like wary prizefighters entering the ring. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
MSN Toolbar Bops Pop-Ups, Works Search
Date: 2004-01-26 Source: InternetNews.com
Microsoft Corp. launched a beta version of its MSN Toolbar offering easier access to its services including e-mail and search, as well as a customizable pop-up ad blocker, on Monday. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Searching for Dominance: What Will Microsoft Search Look Like?
Date: 2004-01-12 Source: Search Engine Guide
Today, the spotlight is on Microsoft, and how they will likely change the face of web search. In this column, I won't be talking about industry impact. Instead, with the help of our Organic Search wiz, Rob Sullivan, I'm looking at the promise of Microsoft's research itself, and what the tool may actually look like. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Microsoft Tests Answer to Google News
Date: 2003-11-18 Source: InternetNews.com
The most innovative Newsbot feature is personalization. MSN users who sign in to Microsoft Passport received personalized news based on previously demonstrated interests. It can show news from sources that person clicked on in the past, or suggest stories based on previously shown interests, the company said. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
A Search Engine Mystery Solved
Date: 2003-11-17 Source: Groklaw
So, now you know what Microsoft thinks a search engine should be: just another way to use customers to get a competitive advantage. They have no concept of the public interest, I discern, from the design of their search engine. It's all about Microsoft and their friends. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Microsoft thinks search engines are the key to future Internet use
Date: 2003-11-12 Source: Independent.co.uk
Microsoft, the "800-pound gorilla" of computing is spending some of its $46bn cash reserves on developing new search technology. Yet the search landscape is, at present, not so simple as it might appear. It's not just Google and a sometime-in-the-future Microsoft; there are a huge number of search engines scrapping for a slice of your attention. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Why Microsoft wants to buy - then trash - Google
Date: 2003-11-11 Source: the inquirer
The mind boggles at the amount of fear that Microsoft has that people who search the Internet for knowledge, answers and understanding. Microsoft's fear is so great that it is willing to subvert what is truly one of the great inventions of history, searching the Internet, to a mere tool with one purpose, namely, to trick us all into buying Microsoft's software. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Microsoft, Google could cook up deal
Date: 2003-11-03 Source: USAToday.com
Several months ago, Microsoft approached Google about an acquisition. Google passed, though the companies may work out their first partnership, say sources familiar with the talks. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Microsoft's search entry could restart browser war
Date: 2003-10-31 Source: newmediazero
Sector-watchers agree that MSN's plan to ditch the partnership approach it has taken to search marketing, and to launch its own product, could provoke search giant Google to hit back by launching its own Web browser, reigniting the browser wars. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
