http://www.researchbuzz.org/ en-us tara@researchbuzz.com 2005-01-20T21:25:43-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/msn_releases_new_country_versions_of_newsbot.html Thanks to the SEW blog for the pointer: apparently MSN has released Australian and Canadian versions of Newsbot. The more the merrier! See the announcement at http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050119-135052 .... 2317@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Search Engines-MSN 2005-01-20T21:25:43-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/msn_offering_xml_feeds_of_web_searches.html I could have made all kinds of predictions about what the new MSN search was going to offer, but a fairly open and communicative design team would not have been... 2295@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Search Engines-MSN 2005-01-14T13:27:42-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/msn_whips_up_a_wiki_for_their_search_engine.html MSN has whipped up a Wiki for their search engine; see their announcement about it at http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2004/12/22/330001.aspx. The Wiki itself is available at http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.MsnSearchFeedback. It is not well-populated yet, but... 2240@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Search Engines-MSN 2004-12-27T21:33:47-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/msn_stomps_on_to_the_scene_with_new_desktop_search_.html Microsoft has announced the new MSN(R) Toolbar Suite, and I had no idea there was so much pent up demand to search the desktop, for crying out loud. The new... 2217@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Search Engines-MSN 2004-12-13T08:27:38-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/msn_teleconference_tomorrow_.html MSN has announced a teleconference for tomorrow and they're actually announcing it on their blog and inviting people to listen in. Woo. Too bad I'll be working and missing it.... 2213@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Search Engines-MSN 2004-12-12T10:46:33-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/msn_cranks_up_a_blog_service.html MSN announced last week that they've set up a blog service called MSN Spaces. In addition, they're cranking out a beta version of the new MSN Messenger 7.0, and updates... 2195@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Search Engines-MSN 2004-12-02T05:48:56-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/msn_search_engine_does_algebra.html Hat tip to Jeremy who turned me on to the fact that MSN's new search engine ( http://beta.search.msn.com/ ) will do algebra. Try 2x+3=14 And see what the top of... 2166@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Search Engines-MSN 2004-11-21T11:35:12-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/xmlhub_makes_tool_for_generating_rss_feeds_of_msn_search_results_.html They don't let any grass grow under THEIR feet. Xmlhub has a tool for making RSS feeds out of MSN search engine query results at http://www.xmlhub.com/rssmsn.php/. They warn that it... 2164@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Search Engines-MSN 2004-11-19T08:10:25-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/msn_blog_why_didnt_msn_crawl_my_site.html MSN's blog is openly answering some questions about crawling, etc. The post at http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2004/11/18/266087.aspx gets into why a page would or would not have been crawled by MSN's search spider:... 2163@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Search Engines-MSN 2004-11-19T08:02:56-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/some_bookmarklets_for_the_new_msn_service_.html I'm a bookmarklet wonk, so you know I had to wrangle up some bookmarklets for the new MSN search service. Here they are: Check MSN backlinks for the current URL... 2152@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Search Engines-MSN 2004-11-15T07:38:18-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/msn_launches_a_beta_version_of_the_new_msn_search_.html Yesterday Google about doubled its index to eight billion pages. And I figured it was for competitive purposes but didn't really know why. When MSN announced a new search enigne,... 2147@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Search Engines-MSN 2004-11-11T10:10:55-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/microsoft_desktop_search_end_of_the_year_.html ZDNet is reporting that Microsoft will make its own foray into desktop search by the end of the year. "During its earnings call with financial analysts, Microsoft said an MSN-branded... 2099@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Search Engines-MSN 2004-10-24T13:56:21-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/msns_tech_preview_is_back_.html At the end of July I reviewed MSN's first tech preview for their new search engine. I wasn't impressed. (Man, I'm getting crabby. Hey you kids, get off my lawn!... 2057@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Search Engines-MSN 2004-10-06T22:21:47-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/microsofts_search_champs_team.html I wanted to clarify something about which I've gotten several e-mails. Microsoft is starting a new "Search Champs" initiative, which starts out with an event on October 4 and 5.... 2050@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Search Engines-MSN 2004-10-04T02:51:52-05:00 http://www.researchbuzz.org/msn_shuts_down_preview_of_search_technology.html Apparently I did my review of the MSN search technology beta just in time, as trying to access it now gets you this page: http://techpreview.search.msn.com/10508/techpreview/sorry/ww/sorry-ww.htm which includes the text "Once... 1937@http://www.researchbuzz.org/ Search Engines-MSN 2004-08-17T08:11:19-05:00