Microsoft’s Web Search
Today, Microsoft is due to unveil its long-awaited new Web search service, and the product bears all the hallmarks of the feisty, upstart side of the company. I’ve been testing this new version of the company’s MSN search service, and, while it isn’t yet as good as Google, the search leader Microsoft is targeting, it shows all the signs of becoming a very serious challenger.
The new MSN Search is still a “beta,” or test, product, and it will undergo a lot of tweaking before its planned formal release in January. For instance, Microsoft isn’t finished perfecting the relevancy of search results. And one major new feature, the ability to search files on your own computer, is still a few weeks away from even emerging in beta form. This is clearly a work in progress, but it’s already pretty good.
I did a few searches and it was okay. Nothing to write home about. I can’t imagine switching over to it from Google at this point, it’d have to be an order of magnitude better for me to do that. But you never know. Google may stumble at some point and Microsoft is always ready to pounce when that happens.
Take the beta search for a spin and let me know what you think of it.
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