Thursday, July 1, 2004Microsoft's belated entrance into online algorithmic searchIt looks like Microsoft's search engine is a bit lopsided-- oversampling websites to the point where it drowns out other search results and tends to return different rank (poorer IMO) results as compared to Google/Yahoo. Also the site, albeit in beta mode, is very slow (new searches can take 1+ sec). But... this is what's come to be expected of MS software in general-- I'm just happy it doesn't crash my browser :) In true Microsoft spirit, MSN search does a nearly direct lift of the UI from Google, the only difference being that they didn't wrap the text properly & don't have the Google logo. Again, the biggest gripe is that they rank differently-- my blog is ranked 5th on their crawlers vs 1st for Google/Yahoo. :( In some cases, top results from Google/Yahoo don't even show up at all on MSN first 20 links. In the search below. MSN's top result in this case results in a 404 (site not found)!!! http://techpreview.search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=cowboy+bebop&FORM=SMCRT http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=cowboy+bebop http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=cowboy+bebop&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&n=20&fl=0&x=wrt Update [7/18]: Looks like they fixed the link above. And I'm now ranked first. Ok I'm happy :D http://techpreview.search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=steve+lin&FORM=SMCRT posted @ 04:14 AM PST [link] |
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