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January 20, 2005MSN Releases New Country Versions of NewsBotThanks 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 ....Read the rest of entry "MSN Releases New Country Versions of NewsBot" here. January 14, 2005MSN Offering XML Feeds of Web SearchesI 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...Read the rest of entry "MSN Offering XML Feeds of Web Searches" here. December 27, 2004MSN Whips Up a Wiki For their Search EngineMSN 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...Read the rest of entry "MSN Whips Up a Wiki For their Search Engine" here. December 13, 2004MSN Stomps On to the Scene With New Desktop SearchMicrosoft 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...Read the rest of entry "MSN Stomps On to the Scene With New Desktop Search " here. December 12, 2004MSN Teleconference TomorrowMSN 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....December 02, 2004MSN Cranks Up A Blog ServiceMSN 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...November 21, 2004MSN Search Engine Does AlgebraHat 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...Read the rest of entry "MSN Search Engine Does Algebra" here. November 19, 2004xmlhub Makes Tool for Generating RSS Feeds of MSN Search ResultsThey 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...Read the rest of entry "xmlhub Makes Tool for Generating RSS Feeds of MSN Search Results " here. MSN Blog: Why Didn't MSN Crawl My Site?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:...Read the rest of entry "MSN Blog: Why Didn't MSN Crawl My Site?" here. November 15, 2004Some Bookmarklets for the New MSN ServiceI'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...Read the rest of entry "Some Bookmarklets for the New MSN Service " here. November 11, 2004MSN Launches a Beta Version of the New MSN SearchYesterday 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,...Read the rest of entry "MSN Launches a Beta Version of the New MSN Search " here. October 24, 2004Microsoft Desktop Search? End of the Year.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...Read the rest of entry "Microsoft Desktop Search? End of the Year. " here. October 06, 2004MSN's Tech Preview is BackAt 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!...October 04, 2004Microsoft's "Search Champs" TeamI 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....Read the rest of entry "Microsoft's "Search Champs" Team" here. August 17, 2004MSN Shuts Down Preview of Search TechnologyApparently 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...Read the rest of entry "MSN Shuts Down Preview of Search Technology" here. July 29, 2004MSN Search Technology Preview (Finally)I'm finally getting to reviewing the new MSN search technology. Dear MSN, please do not preview new technology when I'm finishing a book. Thank you. Anyway, the new search tech...Read the rest of entry "MSN Search Technology Preview (Finally)" here. June 10, 2004Microsoft's New Search Engine and Engine Spamvnunet.com is reporting that Microsoft is planning to add a spam filter to its search engine. "The company unveiled a research project at its Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View...Read the rest of entry "Microsoft's New Search Engine and Engine Spam" here. |
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