After 14 months of work and a $100 million investment, Microsoft rolled out a test version of its new search engine late Wednesday night. The new MSN Search mimics technologies already offered by
Google, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves. For instance, MSN offers direct answers from its Encarta encyclopedia to natural language searches such as "What is the capital of Albania?" It has a personalization tool
that lets searchers set criteria for searches. Other features include local search; image and news search; and search shortcuts.
Read the whole story at DMNews.com, November 12, 2004
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