The Future of Search
Posted: May 26, 2009
By: realsoftwaredevelopment.com
Microsoft is getting ready for battle with Google with Bing.com. Internally Bing has been talked about as Kumo.com. Over the next few months, Microsoft is going to spend $100 million dollars on promoting Bing.com. But what is Microsoft bringing to the table with Bing.com? Microsoft has certainly done their homework over the last several years. They seem to think they have a great product now, let’s see how well it does against Google.com!
Google’s big mistake was declaring search almost solved at 90% to 95%. Search is so far from being solved it’s not even funny. Microsoft did its own research and found that 42% of all searches need to be refined. 25% of all searches result in the user hitting the “back” button. I wrote an article called “Who Wants To Beat Google?” a few months ago, and it sounds like Bing is going to have many of these features which is great, but there is still something I’m hoping Microsoft is not forgetting. The Developers and Webmasters!………[read entire article]
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