ObsessiveMathsFreak writes "The Inquirer is reporting that Microsoft is offering a preview of its new search technology. The search engine preview has a minimalist interface, similar to Google. Microsoft claims over one billion web pages searched, but admits the fact that searching is a little slow. This technology hasn't yet been incorporated into MSN Search, though the site claims it eventually will be. In related news, the Financial Times is reporting that Microsoft are to improve the regular MSN Search site by removing paid advertisements from regular internet searches, a move that will cost them 'tens of millions of dollars.' Are the Search Engine Wars finally upon us?" (More links at Slashdot)
Unsurprisingly no news. MS has only indexed over one billion web pages, but Google more than three billion. Doing some searches, the overall content of most query results stays the same, only the ordinance changes a bit. This is not what we were waiting for.
A reader (viper21 (16860)) responded: "Hey, at least microsoft did one thing right. [msn.com]"
(earlier this day the intended result was "Sorry, no results were found containing "miserable failure")
