Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Microsoft's aggressive search plans revealed | CNET News.com: "Microsoft's aggressive search plans revealed"

... Web log and social-networking products, and ... the Microsoft division plans to develop natural language-processing algorithms. This technology would permit visitors to ask questions such as "What's the highest mountain?" instead of using simple keywords...

hinted at some research areas. He said one in two search requests currently go unanswered and that there are a number of ways to improve on that. One is to learn more about the searchers, in order to give better results"

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