Why Microsoft Live! Search isn't ready to compete with Google
The proof that Microsoft Live search needs work if they ever hope to compete with Google is if you try to search for "PDC". PDC is short for Professional Developers Conference which is a Microsoft sponsored conference. You would think that Microsoft would at least be able to list its own conference as the first result or at least on the first page, but you would be wrong. However, if you search "PDC" in Google, it's not only on the first page, but it's the first result. The first result of Microsoft Live search is the Portland Development Comission (huh?). I don't understand how Microsoft thinks that their search product could be taken seriously if it cannot be used to find their own conference.
That being said, it is obvious that Microsoft is using their own original algorithm for search. It's obvious because it's failing. I do appreciate that Microsoft is attempting to come up with a product that is not hacked together and it using original algorithms, but it makes it hard to break away from the 100 lb. search Googrilla when the algorithms fail.
The proof that Microsoft Live search needs work if they ever hope to compete with Google is if you try to search for "PDC". PDC is short for Professional Developers Conference which is a Microsoft sponsored conference. You would think that Microsoft would at least be able to list its own conference as the first result or at least on the first page, but you would be wrong. However, if you search "PDC" in Google, it's not only on the first page, but it's the first result. The first result of Microsoft Live search is the Portland Development Comission (huh?). I don't understand how Microsoft thinks that their search product could be taken seriously if it cannot be used to find their own conference.
That being said, it is obvious that Microsoft is using their own original algorithm for search. It's obvious because it's failing. I do appreciate that Microsoft is attempting to come up with a product that is not hacked together and it using original algorithms, but it makes it hard to break away from the 100 lb. search Googrilla when the algorithms fail.