You Have 100 Days To Beat Google  Needless to say, Microsoft
didn’t manage to meet that somewhat bizarre challenge.   When I
was invited to Redmond to get a sneak peak of the new MSN search
engine a few years back as part of SearchChamps, I left a little
underwhelmed. I’m not sure how much more I can say due to still-
existing non-disclosure agreements, but from information already
published on the web, others clearly felt the same way. I
thought that was a lot of potential from Microsoft Research, and
clearly Microsoft has immense capability, and resources, but
they haven’t really fired in the search space, as yet.  Are
Microsoft the new IBM, and Google the new Microsoft?  Or are MS
waiting for Vista to provide leverage?  They’ve been a little
quiet of late. A little too quiet. As the article wisely states:
“Don’t underestimate Microsoft”.  If there’s one prediction I’d
make this year, it would be that this is the year that the MS
search beast wakes.  Or maybe next year :)    1.
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