TCH-Thomas Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 (edited) Microsoft Corp. tomorrow will start its long-awaited Internet search service, adding fresh competition to Google Inc.After 18 months of development, the Redmond, Wash., software maker will open a preview version of the search service, according to people familiar with the plan. The company is trying to grab a bigger piece of the lucrative business, now led by Google, of combining Internet search and advertising. Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB110002421614469029,00.html?mod=home_whats_news_us Edited November 10, 2004 by TCH-Thomas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Dick Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 Bill got me looking at the MS search, it is very very good in my opinion, google better look out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borfast Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 *TCH-Dick likes it Searching for "borfast" gives me as the first result the page on my site that tells people not to use Internet Explorer Thumbs Up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellringr Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 Searching for "borfast" gives me as the first result the page on my site that tells people not to use Internet Explorer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 Thats funny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarqFlare Posted November 11, 2004 Share Posted November 11, 2004 Pretty nifty. Competition is good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deverill Posted November 12, 2004 Share Posted November 12, 2004 Competition is awesome, especially in that field! Google has become the Microsoft of the search engines... it's the one everyone goes to because it's familiar but they have become sloppy and fairly irrelevant. I like MSN right now because the results seem more relevant, but I heard that they are actually spidering Google results to get their database up to size quickly. They'll get a lot of junk and it will take several weeks to months to work out their algorithms to filter the junk -- even if their programming is superior. One of my clients is on Google at position 148 but on MSN at 10 for the best keyword phrase, so it's looking promising. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borfast Posted November 12, 2004 Share Posted November 12, 2004 (edited) But MSN Search doesn't have a cache (VERY usefull when you want to see a page that has been changed since it was indexed, because the new page may not have what you searched for, or even worse, it may be unavailable) And it doesn't read PDFs, PPTs, SWFs, .DOCs... I'm not much into this search engine stuff but I did notice that Google's results have become less relevant... maybe if MSN Search is really good, Google will come back to their old higher standards of quality Edited November 12, 2004 by TCH-Raul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deverill Posted November 12, 2004 Share Posted November 12, 2004 Yes, the caches come from being around a bit. They probably are cacheing them but just haven't worked out the presentation part yet. Who knows, it could be a marketing scheme where they let people say how much they like this or that feature and then provide it for them. How do you know it doesn't read those file formats - they may do it but not admit to it yet for the above or other reasons. The improvement to Google is definitely what I'm hoping for. At the current rate of things, Google would be hard to displace by another search engine so I'm hoping this makes them get better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sts Posted November 12, 2004 Share Posted November 12, 2004 Anybody knows if MS search uses any kind of page rank system like Google? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deverill Posted November 12, 2004 Share Posted November 12, 2004 Don't know about a page rank system but it is apparent from the results that they put more emphasis on the on-page elements than they do on links from other sites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted November 12, 2004 Author Share Posted November 12, 2004 I think they figured that out Raul, cause I cant your IE-page on beta.search.msn.com. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borfast Posted November 13, 2004 Share Posted November 13, 2004 Darn, you're right, Thomas! I was mistaken, I was visiting search.msn.com instead of beta.search.msn.com! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted November 13, 2004 Author Share Posted November 13, 2004 Was I tired when I rote that yesterday? I cant your IE-page Hm...when I will I learn to proof read my own posts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borfast Posted November 13, 2004 Share Posted November 13, 2004 Thomas, I still haven't and that's why you see a "This post has been edited by TCH-Raul on ...." on 90% of my posts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted November 13, 2004 Share Posted November 13, 2004 Thomas, I still haven't and that's why you see a "This post has been edited by TCH-Raul on ...." on 90% of my posts Same here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted November 13, 2004 Author Share Posted November 13, 2004 Sure, Im just curious on how I missed my typo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borfast Posted November 13, 2004 Share Posted November 13, 2004 (edited) It's a TCH-moderator thing, I think we all do that You just never noticed it until you became a mod. PS - See the "Edited by"...? Edited November 13, 2004 by TCH-Raul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted November 13, 2004 Author Share Posted November 13, 2004 (edited) No Oh, there it is. Edited November 13, 2004 by TCH-Thomas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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