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Microsoft prepares for search assault

Posted by malebolgia on 28 June 2004 - 15:28 · 15 comments & 2059 views

This July Microsoft is getting ready to take on Google and Yahoo with its new search engine. For a while now Microsoft has been promising a better search engine with exciting capabilities. Capabilities such as "Personalization, understanding local information and having the ability to analyze semantics of a document, browse databases and attach domain knowledge."

Microsoft plans to kick off a series of improvements to its search capabilities starting in July as it looks to compete with heavyweights Google and Yahoo, Bill Gates said Monday.

Microsoft's chairman told a media briefing here that the company had "several milestones with its search site" on the way. "In July, the format of the site will change--and so will the quality of what you get--and the way it'll look is dramatically improved," Gates said. "It'll be later this year that we actually roll out what's entirely our own back-end driving the search".

Gates said the way search was currently done was "very low tech," based on taking a "bunch of words and making an index. "You're not actually understanding the documents, and so some of the false hits you get are almost humorous," he said. "A human would not make those mistakes because a human can understand the document."

News source: C|Net News.com

Would have set the other to no show, but it has 2 comments and this has none.

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#1 Posted by HoochieMamma on 28 Jun 2004 - 15:39: Interesting

(2 replies) #2 Posted by Cyranthus on 28 Jun 2004 - 15:51: and microsoft needs to do this, why?

#3 Posted by chacho on 28 Jun 2004 - 15:57: google local
google personalized

google's got em beat...

(1 reply) #4 Posted by Ivand on 28 Jun 2004 - 15:58: Becuase they want to take over the world?

#5 Posted by Mister Lamar on 28 Jun 2004 - 15:58: Cause Microsoft is the shizznitt!!!

#6 Posted by McG on 28 Jun 2004 - 16:31: search asssssssult!!!

(1 reply) #7 Posted by Ficman on 28 Jun 2004 - 17:39: MS will have to be a LOT better than Google for me to use it, Google ROCKS...

#8 Posted by allfive6 on 28 Jun 2004 - 18:12: Why not give MSN a chance I mean I know there search blows right now but I would like to see how good they make it. And remember Google made all the email providers better with gmail now maybe MSN can make a great produce and force Google to make a even better search engine then we all win again.

#9 Posted by JadeWolf324 on 28 Jun 2004 - 23:12: THEY FINALLY DID IT!!! THEY HIGHERD 10,000 MONKIES TO SEARCH THE WEB!!!!

GO MONKEY GO!!!

#10 Posted by BGuillaume on 29 Jun 2004 - 16:52: Damn what a stupid comment , those pseudo anti Microsoft/MSN geeks don't even know what they are talking about....
If MS wanna go into the Search market then it's better than anyone else...they have the technology and they can beat Google any day soon....
Hotmail will soon get better than poor stupid GMail , those who keep receiving spams simply don't know how to use the anti spal tools provided by Hotmail...what a shame...who would not be able to use MS technology ???
So yeh the search engine is a very good thing and the only thing that might be bad would be a slow search engine cluttered with ads everywhere...We'll see how things turn out,but I'm confident

#11 Posted by Hills420 on 30 Jun 2004 - 17:13: Does anyone plan on using this? I think I'll stick with google. The less dependent peopel are on Microsft, the better.

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