Interesting Article from the Register about the new search engine Microsoft have been developing. Probably the first i've seen that doesnt seem to be bashing a MS Product down and beating it to death.... Conclusion: It may actually survive!
Google's executives might be sleeping a little easier this weekend after Microsoft unveiled its much-hyped new search engine. It's fast, slick, and comes with a raft of interesting new features: confounding some expectations as surely as it confirms others. In short, Microsoft has produced a search engine that's better in almost every way than Google, except for one: its search results are terrible. But let's start with the good stuff.
For the past week or so I've been using the (still indexing) search engine to try out the new engine, whilst the format of the results is somewhat dodgy (come on...) it's fast (wait till theres as much traffic as google has to decide on this) and seems to find more pages than google. However, it seems there are some potential flaws one i noticed was....
Take for Instance our editor, HotHTML 3. On Google, the home page to the product is at the top with approximately 9,600 results when we serach for “HotHTML 3”. (LINK) Which i presume is the proper way as the most relavent would be the source of hte product.
The same query on MS's Beta engine churns out approximately 2,200 results with VBWire at the top of the list. Relavancy isnt being done properly I presume (or is it?) or maybe its doing the newer pages first.(LINK)
Take a look at teh Search Builder tool which is quite useful to write a complex query easily... all this powered by the ASP.NET foundation... WOW!