MSN Search Beta Allows Relevancy Tweaking
Microsoft Corps division officially launched a beta of its new search engine Thursday as it attempts to make inroads into Google Incs dominance in the search market
As previously reported the Search beta is available as a separate site from s main search service which will continue to gather its search results from Yahoo Incs index A switchover to the new engine is expected in officials said
The beta though offers a peek into s approach for competing in Web search with its own technology...
MSN's Search Hiccups
Microsoft Corps answer to Web search was unavailable for some users during a portion of Thursday morning though a spokeswoman said the problem was not widespread and had been fixed by afternoon
Webloggers first reported encountering server errors as they attempted to test the new search engine The beta site is running simultaneously with s main search site which continues to retrieve its results from Yahoo Incs Web index
Click here to read more about the Search beta
The Search team reported the technical hiccups on a blog it launched earlier this week...
Web titans battle for market share - (United Press International)
Its the battle of the search engines Redmond Washbased software titan Microsoft on Thursday released the final test version of its new search engine designed to go headtohead with Mountain View Califbased search king Google But theres a lot more branching out going on as Web players look to capture pieces of each others territory
Some experts are calling the new Firefox browser recently put out by the Mountain View Califbased opensourceadvocate Mozilla Foundation the first viable alternative to Microsofts Internet Explorer...
Microsoft release MSN Search beta
again
posted pm Thu Nov 11 submitted by Christopher R Anderson
Microsoft has released another beta47preview of its Search service Previous versions of the application were actually powered by Yahoo47Overture but the new technology developed by and for Microsoft is available today November 11th
The preview release is not ready for users desktop searches but that functionality should be included by years end
The search engine has been available to users for a while at searchmsn...
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Friday November 12
As expected Microsoft unveiled the beta version of its own search engine dubbed Search this week but did not include some anticipated tools such as desktop search that would make it a tougher competitor for rival Google
The new engine not on itself and so relatively out of the public eye accesses more than five billion pages that Microsoft has indexed using its own spiders offers natural language searching and includes a tool to provide results based on the users location...