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 Also Easy To Spam and the other MSN Asks Webmasters What. You can group Yahoo and MSN and even Ask.com into the search engines that I have been disappointed with.
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. At the moment it is only possible to use the AOL IM client, so if you use...
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, 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. See Also: MSN Search Offers Free Full Text Access to Encarta Encyclopedia
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...
MSN Search, for example, provides answers from Microsoft's Encarta encyclopedia when that information is relevant to a particular query. Like Ask Jeeves, Google mines open web content including material from the Wikipedia for answers rather than...
Encarta Encyclopedia Tests Edit System. How about white labeling search results from Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask Jeeves and asking a group of individuals which results are better. Does Yahoo/MSN Like High PageRank Links?
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. An * means that MSN provided a direct answer for this query.
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.
Encarta "Direct Answer" expansion: MSN has integrated answers from the Microsoft Encarta encyclopedia since back in 2001. Encarta Link: You needn't depend on MSN guessing you want Encarta answers. Click on the new Encarta link above the search box...
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. First, I've noticed that a "clear link" (not visible in most web browsers...
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.
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.
brought up the answer (The Reform Party) on Google within seconds, and from authoritative sources such as CNN, the InfoPlease facts database, MSN Encarta and the US Department of State. Looking for help on how to use search engines better?
