Microsoft to release new search engine

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2004-07-30 10:01am

Source: NPR. No links as yet, though they shouldn't be hard to find.

Microsoft is planning to release a new search engine to compete with Google. Theirs is capable of searching your computer's hard drive in addition to the Internet. No further details were in the report, and no release date has been specified yet.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-07-30 10:12am

Is this gonna go the way of that last time MS used the selfsame software on both your hard drive and the internet?

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-07-30 10:33am

why is it that all the red alarms go off when i hear about microsoft releasing a search engine that uses both the internet and your hard drive?

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2004-07-30 10:40am

Because in order to search your hard drive it needs to be able to see all the content, and if they try and do this via the net, that means code running locally on your machine.....with Mr.Gates reputation for top quality code with no flaws or security leaks though, there's no need for any alarm.

GoldenFalcon · Post by **GoldenFalcon** » 2004-07-30 11:09am

Um, why would you need to search your own hard drive while searching the internet? Isn't that what the Search button is for?

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2004-07-30 11:29am

WTF? You search the internet for files, information, pics, whateve you don't have. Why would you want to search your hard drive in the proccess?

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2004-07-30 11:36am

BBC Article

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-07-30 11:52am

Dartzap wrote:BBC Article

page not found. . . . .

GoldenFalcon · Post by **GoldenFalcon** » 2004-07-30 11:55am

Fixed link

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2004-07-30 12:04pm

That's weried, it worked when i preview my post, Oh well, Thanks GF

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-08-02 07:32pm

Search harddrive, search internet, use connection to internet to send "anonymous statistics" to Microsoft...... I can smell it from here already.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-08-02 08:10pm

GoldenFalcon wrote:Um, why would you need to search your own hard drive while searching the internet? Isn't that what the Search button is for?

It's a pretense...

Shinova wrote:Search harddrive, search internet, use connection to internet to send "anonymous statistics" to Microsoft...... I can smell it from here already.

...for this.

Good call, Shinova.

Cao Cao · Post by **Cao Cao** » 2004-08-02 09:03pm

Erm... they can't seriously expect anybody would be stupid enough to use that.
Then again, this world has all sorts..

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-08-03 12:46am

Cao Cao wrote:Erm... they can't seriously expect anybody would be stupid enough to use that.
Then again, this world has all sorts..

IE/Explorer was snuck in on us when we weren't paying attention...

But then again, we are keeping a very watchful eye on MS these days in order to keep from getting $crewed again.

ATTN Billy-boy! Trick me once, Shame on you. Trick us twice, Shame on us.

We won't be tricked twice.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2004-08-04 02:22pm

ROFL, my mom had the TV tuned into CNBC and there was this person that actually said that by MS ability to search your hard drive in their engine, it trumps google. ROFL

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-08-04 11:12pm

Google is actually planning on HD search. The idea is not only can you scan for filenames and such but you can do deeper scans to search for content within it.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-08-04 11:57pm

phongn wrote:Google is actually planning on HD search. The idea is not only can you scan for filenames and such but you can do deeper scans to search for content within it.

Unfortunately differing file formats would make things a bitch to work with- may be solved with plugins... isn't Longhorn/GNOME Storage supposed to do this?

Ma Deuce · Post by **Ma Deuce** » 2004-08-05 01:52am

Bah! Microsoft will never be able to compete with Google, because Google has an l33t s34rch p4g3!!

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(that is, they offer "Hacker" as one of the available languages for the search page: They also offer Klingon and Bork )

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2004-08-05 03:08am

And Elmer Fudd.

GoldenFalcon · Post by **GoldenFalcon** » 2004-08-05 10:25am

Ma Deuce wrote:Bah! Microsoft will never be able to compete with Google, because Google has an l33t s34rch p4g3!! .

(that is, they offer "Hacker" as one of the available languages for the search page: They also offer Klingon and Bork )

Jesus...most of that is unreadable.

Anyway, for some reason I don't even trust Google with HD search. They already proclaimed that their programs would read your mail on Gmail, exploiting a feature like HD search could probably get what Shinova said as a result.

Then again this is probably paranoid rambling, so feel free to toss it.