Examples include weather, stocks, Yellow Pages data, recent sports scores, or facts from Encarta. A group of journalists, bloggers, and advertisers spent the day Wednesday at Microsoft's Mountain View offices for a view of several improvements to...
Part of the process is just taking advantage of low hanging fruit as in the sports scores example above (MSN knows Fox and has a great relationship with them) or looking at what other high quality information is available through partners like...
Access to Encarta Continues, ResourceShelf From The SEW Blog. Craigslist Adds Cities, Now 300 Strong According to an article in the Wall Street Journal (sub.req'd) over the weekend and a Monday posting on PaidContent, iconic local community and...
t entirely new; Gary recently mentioned that users of MSN Messenger can send a request to encarta@conversagent.com and interrogate the Encarta product via IM for example. Kozoru opens public beta testing of byoms (build your own mobile search...
Some data via Encarta other data via the CIA's Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments database. Data from the Office of Personnel Management (U.S.and Encarta. MSN Search's WebLog points out that MSN Search is now home to more...
The Encarta bot itself is powered by Conversagent. The Encarta bot, offers answers to "ready reference" types of questions (what is, who is, etc.from MSN's Encarta Encyclopedia while the other bot offers BBC Television listings.
I wonder how Microsoft's plan that lets users submit material to Encarta and then have it verified is going? (via Threadwatch) This time Andrew Orlowski is all over Wikipedia in the article: Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems.
MSN Search Offers Free Full Text Access to Encarta Encyclopedia - Researchers might be interested to learn that MSN Search is offering a free access to the full text (not just blurbs) of Microsoft's Encarta encyclopedia.
Researchers might be interested to learn that MSN Search is offering a free access to the full text (not just blurbs) of Microsoft's Encarta encyclopedia. Basically, when you click on a link to Encarta found on MSN Search results pages or in an MSN...
A search box is still found at the top of the page with a link to click to select either web, news, images, Encarta, or local search. While doing some work this afternoon I noticed that MSN has started to beta test a redesigned homepage at beta.msn...
Like Ask Jeeves, Google mines open web content including material from the Wikipedia for answers rather than using a more authoritative reference work such as Encarta. MSN Search, for example, provides answers from Microsoft's Encarta encyclopedia...
Encarta Encyclopedia Tests Edit System. Pepsi Challenge for Search Engines Search Engine Watch Forums How about white labeling search results from Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask Jeeves and asking a group of individuals which results are better.
Google is mining open web content including material from the Wikipedia for answers versus using material from reference tool like MSN Search does with Encarta. I've said for quite some time that search engines will slowly but surely become "answer...
The new MSN engine offers "direct answers" powered with material from Microsoft's Encarta encyclopedia. A post at Dirson kicked off a Slashdot discussion about Google offering to host "some" Wikimedia content.
Material comes from their Encarta encyclopedia. When MSN rereleased their search beta last November, they joined several other general purpose web engines offering direct answers on search results pages.
But the beta service expanded the direct answers provided by Encarta to one million topics. Encarta Link: You needn't depend on MSN guessing you want Encarta answers. Click on the new Encarta link above the search box, and you can search Encarta...
Second, in addition to the links for web, news, images, and desktop search above the search box on a serp, a NEW link for Microsoft's Encarta encyclopedia is now visible. Two things to report. First, I've noticed that a "clear link" (not visible in...
Using define will place a definition from Encarta at the top of the results page along with a link for a more complete definition. The news release mentions that for some "ready reference" (example: What is the capital of Turkey) queries an ANSWER...
For example, queries for factual information get "direct answers" from Microsoft's Encarta encyclopedia. After months of speculation and two "preview" releases, Microsoft has taken the wraps off of its new MSN search engine, the first major...
Search for galaxy, and a Microsoft Encarta definition and article links appear before the web search material. The promotion of Encarta data is not new to this release. Encarta data was added back in 2001.
