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Search Champ and personal friend, Buzz Bruggeman , recently announced his company’s release of an ActiveWords agent for MSN Desktop Search ! ActiveWords is a slick application launcher – just type and it will launch apps, search, or jump to websites. Buzz and his team worked with us to get it built, and from what I hear it has been getting some major downloads! Somewhat related, I love software –dream something up one day, start designing/building it the next, then soon there after turn it loose for folks to play with it and share how to make it better! I can’t wait to see what other kinds of innovations are being devised right now using MSN DS!!! Leave us a comment if you are working on something...
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As you may have noticed elsewhere , our teammates at MSR Asia released a Search Result Clustering site & toolbar (good job guys!). It can be used for query disambiguation (example: jaguar ) and sub-topic discovery (example: data mining ). It was developed at Web Search and Mining Group in MSR, Asia and does all of the clustering on the fly using MSN’s Search Results. MSRA’s approach to clustering is a little different that other systems you might have seen. Here’s a summary from the project’s publication: Traditional clustering techniques don't work for this problem because the documents are short, the cluster names should be readable and the algorithm should be efficient for on-the-fly calculation...
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We're thrilled to announce that Dr. Gary William Flake has joined the Microsoft as a Distinguished Engineer; Dr. Flake is the first person outside the company to be hired as a distinguished engineer (DE). Dr. Flake comes from Yahoo where he led their research and development efforts, focusing on creating the next generation of Web search. At Microsoft he'll be responsible for bridging the innovation happening between Microsoft Research and MSN and for setting the technology vision and future direction of the MSN portal, web search, desktop search and monetization engine. Here's the short bio from his homepage: Dr. Flake joined Yahoo! with the acquisition of Overture in 2003 to lead Yahoo!s research...
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Yesterday marks the release of Messenger 7.0 for Windows (and the official launch of Spaces ). If you download the new IM client you’ll see that we’ve added 3 ways to search the web. There’s a search box on the buddy window and you can right-click on text in the conversation window, both of these allow you to pick from our verticals. The third way is a new button right under “Send” that allows you to query MSN Search . If you type something and then hit "Search" (that’s just <tab><tab><enter>) then both you and your croney share the results and see them inline, a shared search. We include Encarta answers, web results and an ad - all of which will spawn a browser window. This...
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Hello World. I’ve been quiet for some time now, and I have no good excuses with so much going on in Desktop Search Space (well there was that month in the Bahamas…I wish!). Google went final with their Desktop Search and unveiled a nifty plug-in community space on their site. Yahoo partnered with X1 to release a desktop search tool under their brand and recently updated it to include indexing of their IM conversations and online contacts . Finally, Ask Jeeves was acquired, bought bloglines and is considering partnering with Mozilla Foundation to turn their Desktop Search App into an open source project ! Desktop Search is definitely going to be an exciting space to watch for the rest of 2005...
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