For Our Free Website! Modules  · Home · 3DMaker · Encyclopedia · FAQ · News · PHP Manual · Stories Archive · Surveys · Top 10 · Topics News · Webmaster Tools Excellent Webhosting!  Search Coding Ground  Web (www) Coding.phpground.net Who's Online  There are currently, 100 Coder(s) Online You are another valued user and you are welcome! Encyclopedia  · Internet Terms Glossary · Extensions Glossary ( Almost all File Formats ) · Internet ** Chating ** Acronyms Participate  Submit a: · Script/Tutorial · Encyclopedia Last Updated Scripts/Tutorials   1: Awake Autoresponder Free Script  2: PHP Message Quote of the Day Script  3: PHPnet Forum  4: Adsense Tracking PHP  5: Php Rating System  6: phpWebTrace 1.0  7: POST Affiliate  8: A1 StarArticles v5 NEW  9: easySiteEdit - Quick and Easy way to edit and backup a website  10: XPertMailer - Sends TRUE Mails   MSN Search Beta Launched  Today, Microsoft launched a public beta of their search offering, MSN Search. New features include integration with other Microsoft sites (e.g. Encarta, MSN Music), basic questions search (e.g. What is the capital of Turkey? -> result from Encarta), and a useful search builder tool to help build advance queries fully utilising all the features on offer. The search currently has an index of 5bn pages. Whilst Neowin was in Paris last week, Microsoft told us that one of the key features would be keeping the index fresh, and made a provisional pledge to update it every 7 - 10 days (max); the problems of letting an index go stale were highlighted by Google earlier in the week. Microsoft has clearly stated that their goal with MSN Search is "to help customers find what they want faster". They want to give people better results, clearer results (i.e. cut out the chaff), and give a more personalized set of results. Apparently, it takes the average user 11 minutes to find what they wanted on a search engine. Yet the other goal is the whole issue of fighting back against Google's 60% market share (MS have 9.6% of the search market). Microsoft has admitted they neglected search technology (they previously licensed search from Inktomi), and over the last few years have invested a lot of money into improving their offering. source neowin.net Posted on Thursday, November 11 @ 13:03:42 PST by Ace   Related Links  · More about Announces · News by Ace Most read story about Announces: Hotmail Plus! 2 GB storgage for free - Starting September NB : FOR HOTMAIL EXTRA Article Rating  Average Score: 5 Votes: 1 Please take a second and vote for this article: Options     Printer Friendly Page    Send to a Friend Associated Topics PHP Coding Ground - Free php scripts Yamout Family Website All logos and trademarks in this site are property of their respective owner. The comments are property of their posters, all the rest by Web site engine code is Copyright © 2003 by PHP-Nuke. All Rights Reserved. PHP-Nuke is Free Software released under the GNU/GPL license. Page Generation: 0.518 Seconds :: PHP Net Team 2003-2004 ::