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February 05, 2006MSN and Microsoft Research form Microsoft Live Labs
In a press release on January 26, Microsoft announced Microsoft Live Labs, a research partnership between MSN and Microsoft Research. According to the press release, "The Live Labs ... will focus on Internet-centric applied research programs including rapidly prototyping and...
Continue reading "MSN and Microsoft Research form Microsoft Live Labs" » October 26, 2005Microsoft Jumps on the Book Indexing Bandwagon
Microsoft has announced that they're going to launch MSN Book Search. It'll launch next year. In conjunction with that, MSN has announced its intention to join the Open Content Alliance, which would align them with Yahoo, etc. (You know this...
Continue reading "Microsoft Jumps on the Book Indexing Bandwagon" » September 25, 2005MSN Launches A Web API
MSN has announced a new MSN Search Web Service from their Weblog; you can read all about it at http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2005/09/15/467830.aspx . The good thing about is you get a query limit of 10000 queries per application per day. The potentially...
September 20, 2005MSN's Feed Syntax Temporarily Disabled
You may remember a little while ago I talked about new syntax for MSN's search engine that helped in discovering feeds. Unfortunately there's some kind of issue with the feed syntax and the feed: syntax, which helps you find keywords...
September 12, 2005MSN Adds Syntax for Discovering Feeds / Sites With Feeds
Robin Good is reporting that MSN's search engine now includes index that helps users find RSS feeds and sites that link to RSS feeds. (And this is yet another reason that I don't think anybody has to worry about out-Googling...
Continue reading "MSN Adds Syntax for Discovering Feeds / Sites With Feeds" » August 17, 2005Yow! MSN Newsbot has a SOURCE LIST!
Posted here as a reminder to myself so later when I have more time I can groove endlessly to the fact that MSN Newsbot actually has a SOURCE LIST. You go MSN! It's at http://newsbot.msnbc.msn.com/s/publishers.aspx. It goes from #!/usr/bin/geek to...
August 13, 2005Mobile Search for MSN
Microsoft has announced in their MSN Search Blog ( http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2005/08/12 /450983.aspx) that there's now a local search for mobile devices. It's for Windows Mobile devices and phones with WAP 2.0 drivers. To try it out, phonesurf to http://mobile.msn.com/ and choose...
June 29, 2005MSN Search Adds Special Syntax
Whee! I love special syntax. MSN has added several to their Web search. You can get a full explanation at http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2005/06/24/432439.aspx, but in the meantime here's a rundown: Filetype: Searches for documents of a particular filetype. At the moment it...
May 16, 2005MSN Deskbar Hits Final Release
MSN has announced the final release of what it's now calling the MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search. The announcement is available at http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2005/05/15/417691.aspx while the product itself is at http://toolbar.msn.com/ . Of course you will need Internet Explorer...
April 27, 2005MSN Experimenting With Search Results Clustering
Yup, search result clustering is still hot, or at least warm. Now MSN is getting in on the act with a new clustering tool from their sandbox. You can check out SRC (Search Result Clustering) at http://wsm.directtaps.net/default.aspx . Run a...
Continue reading "MSN Experimenting With Search Results Clustering" » February 01, 2005MSN Launches their Web Search
Microsoft has announced on their Weblog (and on PR Newswire, but I like the Weblog angle better) that the new MSN search has officially launched. Entry at http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2005/01/31/364278.aspx . New/updated features on the search engine include "40,000 Encarta encyclopedia articles...
January 20, 2005MSN Releases New Country Versions of NewsBot
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 ....
Continue reading "MSN Releases New Country Versions of NewsBot" » January 14, 2005MSN Offering XML Feeds of Web Searches
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 at the top of my list (sorry Microsoft!) But I...
December 27, 2004MSN Whips Up a Wiki For their Search Engine
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 I like the section headings a lot. Doesn't look the...
Continue reading "MSN Whips Up a Wiki For their Search Engine" » December 13, 2004MSN Stomps On to the Scene With New Desktop Search
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 tool is free and is available at http://beta.toolbar.msn.com . The...
Continue reading "MSN Stomps On to the Scene With New Desktop Search" » December 12, 2004MSN Teleconference Tomorrow
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....
December 02, 2004MSN Cranks Up A Blog Service
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 to Hotmail. The new Spaces is available at http://spaces.msn.com/ ....
November 21, 2004MSN Search Engine Does Algebra
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 the search result looks like....
November 19, 2004xmlhub Makes Tool for Generating RSS Feeds of MSN Search Results
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 might break, and they'll take it down as soon as...
Continue reading "xmlhub Makes Tool for Generating RSS Feeds of MSN Search Results" » 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: "Thus, URL?s with many (definitely more than 5) query parameters...
Continue reading "MSN Blog: Why Didn't MSN Crawl My Site?" » November 15, 2004Some Bookmarklets for the New MSN Service
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 -- Works in IE, Opera, Mozilla, Firefox Search MSN --...
Continue reading "Some Bookmarklets for the New MSN Service" » November 11, 2004MSN Launches a Beta Version of the New MSN Search
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, with an index of over five billion pages, things suddenly...
Continue reading "MSN Launches a Beta Version of the New MSN Search" » 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 tool would be made available before the end of 2004....
Continue reading "Microsoft Desktop Search? End of the Year." » October 06, 2004MSN's Tech Preview is Back
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! Where's my Geritol?!) Now there's another preview available at http://techpreview.search.msn.com/...
October 04, 2004Microsoft's "Search Champs" Team
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. (You can read more about it at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1663788,00.asp. What I'm...
August 17, 2004MSN Shuts Down Preview of Search Technology
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 we are ready, we will release another preview of our...
Continue reading "MSN Shuts Down Preview of Search Technology" » 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 is now available at http://techpreview.search.msn.com/ , and according to the...
Continue reading "MSN Search Technology Preview (Finally)" » June 10, 2004Microsoft's New Search Engine and Engine Spam
vnunet.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 which uses statistical analysis to locate spam web pages." Note...
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