Microsoft's Search Falls Far Short of Google's
The mighty software maker quickly solved the technical problems that briefly served up temporarily unavailable messages instead of search results Its unclear however how the company will address the missing wow factor
Our tests of the new Searchs trial version betasearchmsncom suggest that its not as accurate as Google While both sites do fine on many queries our comparison of roughly two dozen search phrases gave the edge to Google at least two out of three times
In response to a search on history of photography for example Google yielded as its top result a site deep with resources about photographic history...
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November 16 Business
to Launch Local InternetBased Calling in
Communications will introduce an Internetbased calling service for its local telephone customers early next year and will consider offering the service nationally later the company said on Tuesday
November 16 Government amp Law
Film Industry Files AntiPiracy Suits
A trade group representing seven major movie studios filed a first wave of lawsuits against individuals they say are offering pirated copies of films using Internetbased peertopeer file sharing programs...
Firefox Leaves No Reason to Endure Internet Explorer
And yet people found reasons to stick with alternative browsers cost money were too slow too complicated or didnt work with enough Web sites
No more Tuesday the answer to arrived a safe free fast simple and compatible browser called Mozilla Firefox
Firefox available for Win 98 or newer Mac X and Linux at wwwmozillaorg is an unlikely rival developed by a small nonprofit group with extensive volunteer help...
First Take: MSN Search
Microsoft hustles to catch up with search engine giants Google and Yahoo but the beta version of Search still leaves plenty of room for improvement
Although still technically in beta the new Search debuted on November 11 after having for years relied on licenced search technology from Yahoo Earlier this year the software giant began building its own search algorithm and now boasts more than 5 billion pages indexed and updated regularly a database roughly comparable to Googles and Yahoos...
Take control of your desktop chaos
Upstart Blinkx on Monday introduced version 20 of its software for searching the desktop The cornerstone to the downloadable application is smart folders technology that probes the and Web for files related to a designated topic Users can name a folder or describe a topic of interest with a few keywords and the software will collect related email music Web pages s or text documents based on an analysis of their content and concepts
You can also train it by adding one or two documents It reads those and adds related information be it email attachments Word documents Blinkx Mark Opzoomer said...