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Kumo.com, can it take Mircrosoft above third place in Internet Searches?

March 5, 2009Search Engines

Satya Nadella, senior vice president of research and development for Microsoft’s online services division sent an email Monday to Microsoft employees encouraging them to begin testing the revamped search service that has been dubbed kumo.com.  The testing of Kumo is only available on the internal network at Microsoft. Mr. Nadella stated that he feels 40% [...]

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MSN Released Their New Search Engine

April 21, 2008Search Engines

Though search traffic from Google still far out passes MSN for my site and nearly all my clients, It’s looking to me like MSN searches are starting to increase. We’ll just have to wait over time and see. The one advantage MSN has over Google is that it’s search shows up on all new PCs [...]

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MSN is gunning for Google

April 21, 2008Search Engines

Go take to a second peek at MSN’s new search technology Curious what is under the hood? They claim a new algorithmic search engine with a few more features and a bigger index than the first beta. MSN WANTS feedback to make it better, so give it a spin and tell them what you think [...]

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Microsoft's New Search Engine Testing RSS Features

April 21, 2008Search Engines

But back to RSS feeds. If you’d like to set up an RSS watch feed using MSN’s search engine or MSN News, follow the instructions at: http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2005/01/11/351064.aspx Keep in mind this is all alpha code as indicated in the blog article.  Right now you have to manually add ‘&format=rss’ to the url you create and [...]

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Ms. Dewey – Powered by Live Search

February 3, 2007Search Engines

Try out Ms. Dewey for your next search.  She’s also kind of cute.  Type in your search phrase and watch her gather your results on the page.  She pulls the results from Microsoft’s Live Search and displays them in a scrolling format to the right of the screen.  If you don’t type in anything after [...]

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Microsoft Reveals Strategy for RSS

June 26, 2005Social Media

Bottom line here is Microsoft is actually listening to users and is not going to release a ‘new vesion’ of RSS that’ that overshadows what we’re all using now in any way. Even Dave Winer seemed jubilant about Microsoft’s intentions and the results they showed. Here is where you can learn more: Visit http://www.podtech.net/ hosted by [...]

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