Windows Search, 84% Faster on Vista SP1 and 26% Faster on XP SP3
Back at the start of June 2008, Microsoft introduced an upgrade for the search infrastructure of its Windows client and Server operating systems.
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20.11.2008 MSN Search and Windows Desktop Search Tips & Tricks
Brandon Paddock and Andy Edmonds (Windows Desktop Search team) have sent the word to let us know they're both hosting a 1-hour MSDN Webcast at 1pm (Pacific time, 9PM GMT) today.
They'll be discussing tips, tricks, and hacks for MSN Search and for Windows Desktop Search.
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9.12.2005 Tafiti Search Visualization - Silverlight + Live Search API
What is Tafiti? It is a search visualization website which brings a new user experience to researching (searching and storing results). The source code for www.tafiti.com is available!
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19.12.2007 Windows Vista Search Kills Google Search
Has Microsoft finally gained the upper hand over Google with the launch of Windows Vista? Is this the last we will see of Google search, as the Redmond Company's latest operating system
will be increasingly adopted eroding the market supremacy of Windows XP?
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18.2.2007 Rapidshare Search Engines to Search, Find and Download Files from RapidShare
Since 2nd of July, RapidShare has removed its download limits and captchas for free user. This means that we can continue downloading files from rapidshare without waiting for an hour when we’ve just downloaded a file.
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15.7.2008 Coders, Search For Code With Google Code Search
Search engines for searching code bases is nothing new, but this time Google did it with
Google Code Search.
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5.10.2006 MSN Search Spoof
MSN Search celebrates April Fool's with the return of Spoof, the parody tool that uses fake (but hilariously accurate) search results to gently mock friends, bosses, or people who just need to be teased.
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2.4.2006 MSN search down for hours
According to Infoworld Microsoft's MSN search engine suffered an hours-long outage yesterday as results turned to errors.
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7.4.2006 Microsoft looks for better way to search the Net
Internet searching was at the forefront of the technologies that Microsoft displayed on Tuesday at an event intended to showcase the company's research prowess.
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7.3.2007 Microsoft: Use our search and we'll pay you
Microsoft is offering to pay corporations if they get their employees to use Live Search at work, the company confirmed on Friday.
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17.3.2007 Who uses MS Live Search?
". . . it’s mostly people that are searching for files on their own hard drive who accidentally click the ’search the net’ button."
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3.4.2008 Windows 7: Federated Search
In part one of our overview of Windows 7, we look into Federated Search.
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6.1.2009 Microsofts new search...Yahoo?
Microsoft quietly registered a limited liability company (LLC) last week, which points to the company being poised to make an acquisition or joint venture.
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27.5.2009 MSN Search Toolbar with Antiphishing
MSN Search Toolbar includes Windows Desktop Search, so you can find anything on your PC - documents, e-mail messages. And three handy toolbars make it easy to search the Web or your PC, block annoying pop-up windows, automatically fill out web forms.
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Spybot Search and Destroy v1.3
Search your hard disk for so-called spybots or adbots, the modules that are responsible for showing ads and transmitting information back to vendors. If Spybot Search and Destroy finds such modules, it will remove them or replace them with empty dummies. In most cases, the host software still runs after removing the bot. Among the adbots Spybot targets: Aureate, CLPRS, Comet Cursors, eZula HotText, Gator, GoHip, Radiate, WebHancer, and WildTangent.
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Windows Live to get Product Search
After posting about Windows Live Academic Search last week, yet another new search product has entered our radar. This time it's Windows Live Product Search, and like its cousins Image Search and Feed Search, it too will be integrated into the standard Windows Live Search service.
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11.4.2006 Microsoft Shoots for Photo Search
Microsoft this week revealed that it is at work on a way to search the Internet using photos captured by cell phone cameras.
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17.4.2006 Vista Search Seems Fair, Regulators Say
The U.S. government has given its thumbs-up to Microsoft's search box plans for Vista, shrugging off concerns raised recently by Google.
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14.5.2006 Windows Desktop Search 3.0 Beta 2
The search engine in WDS 3.0 is a Microsoft Windows service that is also used by programs such as Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 and Microsoft Office OneNote 2007.
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23.8.2006 Windows Desktop Search 3.01
Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.01 is a minor update to Windows Desktop Search 3.0 that adds: support for indexing UNC files, additional support for enterprise deployment, and stability improvements.
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20.2.2007 Spybot - Search and Destroy 1.5 Beta
Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications.
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16.6.2007 Vista Desktop Search Annoyance
I thought people might find this fix interesting because it annoyed the hell out of me when I first started using Vista. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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5.9.2007 Windows Live Search 2.0 is Coming!!
As reported by LiveSide, and Softpedia News, Microsoft is holding a three-hour “Searchification” event at its Silicon Valley campus on September 26 that seems like it will be the launch pad for the next version of Microsoft’s Live Search service.
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11.9.2007 New Live Search Homepage Launches
The new homepage for Windows Live Search, which LiveSide told us was coming last week, has gone live, a whole week before the Searchification event.
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19.9.2007 Microsoft leaks its own search plans
A Microsoft employee has posted details about planned changes to Microsoft's Live Search, ahead of an event next week where the company was slated to unveil the changes to reporters.
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21.9.2007 3 New Search Projects from Microsoft Research
At TechFest, Microsoft Research unveiled three new search projects aimed to enhance your search experience. Here are the details:
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10.3.2008 Windows Search 4.0 Preview (KB940157)
WS4 lets you perform an instant search of your computer. WS4 helps you find and preview documents, e-mail messages, music files, photos, and other items on the computer.
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29.3.2008 Spybot Search & Destroy 1.6 RC1
Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications.
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1.7.2008 Windows 7: Explorer Search overview
Over the next few weeks we will be adding many more focus items on Windows 7 including Touch, Windows 7 networking and media enhancements. Stay tuned for the ultimate Windows 7 focus from Neowin.net. Here is an overview of the explorer search features.
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15.1.2009 Windows 7 Search for Data Anywhere It Lives
Windows 7 has long evolved past its precursor, Windows Vista. One key aspect of this evolution is the operating system's ability to stretch Windows Explorer well beyond the limitations of a local machine, or even a local network.
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24.3.2009Windows Search 4.0 84% faster
Matt Hester has just posted up a
blog about
performance and stability improvements in Windows Search 4.0 “ 84% improvement of desktop search in Vista sound good to you?
You can learn more about Windows Search at
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsea
rch/default.mspx...
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20.11.2008Intel to continue selling E2140 CPUs
Intel has recently revised it
plans for the low-end desktop
CPU market and will continue
to sell its Conroe-based
E2140, according to sources at
motherboard makers.
Intel was originally
planning to launch the E2180
on August 26 with a price of
US$84 in 1000-unit tray
quantities while dropping the
price of the E2160 from US$84
to US$74. Following the moves,
the E2140 would be phased out
of the market, according to
previous reports.
The
E2140 processor's current
price is US$74. On July 22,
the price will drop to US$71
and will go down to US$64 on
August 26, added the sources...
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17.07.2007Yahoo Unveils 'Build Your
Own' Search
Yahoo on Monday released a
Search Builder tool for
creating customized search
engines based on a select
group of Web sites or specific
search parameters. The new
service is designed to compete
with personal search upstarts
including Eurekster and
Rollyo...
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09.08.2006Yahoo investor: Sell company to Microsoft for $22 a share
A Yahoo Inc. investor yesterday proposed that Yahoo sell itself to Microsoft Corp. for $22 a share, according to a report from the Reuters news
service. Yahoo was trading at $12.84 at 10 a.m. EDT on Friday.
Mithras Capital - which owns 1.9 million shares or 0.14 % of Yahoo
- said that once the deal concludes. Microsoft could sell off Yahoo's Asian assets and non-search business to gain $3 billion in cost savings and
$2.8 billion in tax benefits. Once the dust settles, Mithras said, Microsoft would have paid $10 billion for Yahoo's search business -- $2 billion
less than it offered earlier this year, according to the report.
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10.10.2008Nearly 3% of America became iPod converts over the holiday
With 40% of last quarter's iPod sales going to first-time buyers, Apple managed to convert a sizeable segment of the entire United States -- nearly
three percent or 8.84 million people -- into white earbud wearers...
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29.02.2008Windows 7: Federated Search
In part one of our overview of Windows 7, we look into Federated Search: Windows Vista included the enhanced desktop search feature which helps users
to readily locate files, e-mail messages, and other items on their PC . With the release of Windows Search 4.0, the performance of the search tool
improved while adding much-needed manageability features for IT. Windows 7 along with the desktop search, introduces Federated Search in which the
scope of the search goes beyond your PC. You can now search for items in remote repositories from your PC. It is based on OpenSearch and the RSS
format.
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06.01.2009Can people be too plugged in?
Glen Gordon: This is an interesting video about people who can't break themselves free of their online connections, be it email, blogs, surfing,
twitter, what have you. I suppose it's a tough problem for one to recognize in oneself, but isn't that true of any addiction?
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21.02.2008Big search company shakeups at Ask.com, Microsoft
As the stakes slide higher in the search technology game, Ask.com's CEO is now leaving that search firm company, just days after Microsoft made a
$1.2 billion bid for troubled search software firm Fast Search & Transfer...
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12.01.2008Firefox Usage Continues to
Grow
The release of Firefox 1.5 has
helped Mozilla gain additional
traction against IE, according
to details of a survey
released on Wednesday by Web
statistics firm
NetApplications.com. The
market share of the
alternative browser reached
8.84 percent in November, up
over one percentage point
since September...
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08.12.2005New search site - Imagine Live Search
A new Live Search site
was brought to our attention
recently (thanks Jamie),
http://search.imagine-liv
e.com/. What's obviously
different is the sparse
homepage, notably the lack of
vertical search options, which
directs the users focus to the
search box and nothing
else.
Diving
in further, search results are
different too. There are no
vertical search options
present under the search box,
however they appear in the
right hand column with
suggested results
pre-populated. Users can see
the results from these other
search options alongside the
main web search results,
allowing users to quickly
refine their query as they
become more aware of what each
search option offers them.
While the related
searches option is already
present on the main Live
Search site, the addition of
Image Search and News Search
is a nice touch. The great
part is that Windows Live Maps
is embedded, auto-detecting
your location and presenting
local search results based on
your query. ..
winbeta.org - 18.05.2007
MySpace Puts Search on Auction
Block
News Corp. said Tuesday that
it plans to call for bids from
search giants Microsoft, Yahoo
and Google to provide Internet
search functionality and
search-based advertising on
the popular social networking
site...
betanews.com - 14.06.2006
Live Search autosuggestions come to Firefox
The Live Search team today announced that they have officially integrated Live Search into Firefox by popular demand. Microsoft has released a Firefox
addon to get to your results faster via Microsoft Live Search auto suggestions. The addon is available for download here. The addon is based on the
Open Search standard and uses the JSON interface supported by Firefox to retrieve autosuggestions. Microsoft has been integrating Open Search into
their products recently - the most recent one being the Federated Search in Windows 7. Open Search has also been implemented in Internet Explorer 7(&
above) and SharePoint Search.
Read full
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neowin.net - 30.01.2009
Like.com Visual Search Engine Debuts
Search company Riya, which has
been developing facial
recognition technology for
locating individuals in
photographs, has spun off its
image search technology onto a
site called Like.com. The
service enables users to
search for images by
appearance - not just text
keywords...
betanews.com - 08.11.2006
Google Launches New Blog
Search Tool
Search giant now offers way to
search online journals...
pcworld.com - 15.09.2005
Intel to launch new entry-level processors in August and October
Intel plans to introduce two
new entry-level desktop
processors in August and
October this year, and will
drop the price of previous
entry-level processors,
according to sources familiar
with Intel's plan.
Intel will launch the new
Pentium E2180 with 2GHz
frequency, 1MB L2 cache and
800MHz FSB on August 26. The
processor will be priced at
US$84 in 1000-unit tray
quantities. The previous E2160
will drop from US$84 to US$74
while the E2140 will slowly
step out of the market, noted
the sources.
In
October, Intel will launch the
entry-level Core 2 Duo E4600
processor with 2.4GHz
frequency, 2MB L2 cache,
800MHz FSB and a price of
US$133. The previous E4500
will drop from US$133 to
US$113, while E4400 and 4300
fade out the market, added the
sources.
winbeta.org - 23.06.2007
Ask.com v. 11 tries new search technologies
After some re-organization in parent company IAC, perennial runner-up search engine Ask.com today announced it had also re-organized its search
technology...
betanews.com - 07.10.2008
Microsoft Uses Silverlight to Spiff Up Search
Microsoft has unveiled a application that combines its Silverlight technology with Windows Live Search, code-named "Tafiti." The name means
"to search" in Swahili. It integrates the various types of Live Search, and allows users to store and share search results by placing them on
"shelves."..
betanews.com - 22.08.2007
Amazon Nearly Exits Search Business
Amazon all but exited the
search business over the
weekend, stripping features
from its site and turning to
other providers for search
functionality. As of last
week, the site was ranked 83rd
among U.S. search sites...
betanews.com - 04.10.2006
Microsoft, Sprint Debut GPS-Aware Search
Microsoft and Sprint expanded their partnership on Tuesday, with the carrier debuting integrated GPS and search functionality using Live Search, as
well as voice search through Tellme...
betanews.com - 18.09.2007
New Google Site Search lets Web sites shape search results
Tuesday, Google launched Site Search, a rebranded overhaul of "Google Custom Search Business Edition" that gives Web site owners tools to
influence the search results that appear on their sites' custom search pages...
betanews.com - 04.06.2008
