Microsoft using MSNBOT to build its own search engine
Looks like the competition will shortly be hotting up in the search engine world - Microsoft have started sending their own MSNbot out scouring the web to build a new index for MSN search
"This crawl is a prototype work. MSNbot is not currently indexing for the MSN Search Engine, so your site may or may not show up in MSN Search results today. Although we have not set a date, it is our intention to eventually integrate the crawled contents into MSN Search results."
Posted by Martin Belam, June 18, 2003
Read the latest posts about: Microsoft, Search
The views expressed on currybetdotnet are my own, and do not reflect the views of Guardian News and Media Limited, or any current or former clients or employers. Read my blogging principles
Get free updates via RSS
Get free updates by email
Follow Martin Belam on Twitter
Search this site
Posts of the moment
Day of the Triffids
If everyone suddenly went blind, how long would the Internet survive, and could you still publish news on it?
With professionals of this quality, who needs 'citizen journalist' enemies?
It is hard to argue that ethics and quality set the 'professional journalist' apart from the amateur blogger, if the 'professional' keeps publishing articles so wrong that they have to be deleted.
Read more about...
- The future of news
- IA and UX events
- Local and hyperlocal news
- Martin Belam talks and presentations
- Media policy and regulation
- New media best practice
- Newspaper website design
- Notes and quotes from media and web events
- 'Old' media relationship with 'new' media
- Site search management and design
- Working at the BBC (2000 - 2005)
- Working at The Guardian (2008 - now)
Also on the site
or any current or former employers or clients.
Contact: martin dot belam at currybet dot net. © Martin Belam where appropriate.
Powered by Movable Type. Hosted by Bytemark. Manufactured in Great Britain.
2 comments so far
Tim Bray has some more on it.
Hmmm I'm off to check some logs...
The MSN bot is another grab for $.. the only way to submit a page to it is by signing up with a placement agency (looksmart) and commit to monthly fees.
I beleive the sucess of the other engine lies in the fact that they accept pages via recomendation and Bot search with an indication of those pages paying for placement.