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November 17, 2004
MSN's desktop search
Details of MSN's desktop search were leaked Sunday and posted to the neowin website complete with screenshots. It looks like Microsoft is starting to get more then a little concerned with Google's activities lately. I still believe Google will release its own browser next year, built on top of the Gecko rendering engine that powers Firefox, Mozilla and Netscape. (The Gecko engine powers other browsers as well).
What does Microsoft say about this leak?
A post to the msnsearch's WebLog says:
While we're flattered by the attention and interest, this was an unauthorized disclosure.
We plan to release the beta bits only when we feel they are ready from a quality and completeness standpoint, and we’re looking forward to getting feedback from beta users at that time.
Should be an interesting year up ahead of us in 2005. Microsoft is desperately hoping to unseat Google from the dominant search engine position with their own MSN search engine.
You know, years ago the search engine AltaVista was pretty well the top search engine and I remember at one time, they had a program you could download to search all of your local files and drives. It was handy, no doubt about it, but it sure chewed up the system resources. I recall I had mine set to re-index the hard drive nightly.
Of course things change...
If any of you try one or the other, feel free to post a review of it here.
Posted by Steve MacLellan at November 17, 2004 06:40 AM
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