Thursday, September 29, 2005
Search Engine Journal - Ask Jeeves and MSN Search Engine Technology Comparison:
"With so much talk about relevance these days, I thought I’d introduce you to some of the technology behind the search engine, and what the potential differences between them could be. There are some interesting takes on search technology from pre-ranking results on the fly to neural networks to community based searching. In the last article I introduced you to Google and Yahoo! and how their search technology works. In this article I look at MSN and Ask Jeeves.
MSN - MSN Search is the newest player in the search market. And despite that they are considered the #3 search engine on the web. Not bad considering they just launched their technology this year.
MSN takes advantage of a technology that no other search engine has tackled – neural networks. A neural network is a series of computers which are supposed to learn based on input provided.
Think about that for a second – a learning computer. One that just doesn’t follow rules assigned to it (which is what the more traditional algorithmic search engines like Google and Yahoo! do) but actually can learn from its results..."
"With so much talk about relevance these days, I thought I’d introduce you to some of the technology behind the search engine, and what the potential differences between them could be. There are some interesting takes on search technology from pre-ranking results on the fly to neural networks to community based searching. In the last article I introduced you to Google and Yahoo! and how their search technology works. In this article I look at MSN and Ask Jeeves.
MSN - MSN Search is the newest player in the search market. And despite that they are considered the #3 search engine on the web. Not bad considering they just launched their technology this year.
MSN takes advantage of a technology that no other search engine has tackled – neural networks. A neural network is a series of computers which are supposed to learn based on input provided.
Think about that for a second – a learning computer. One that just doesn’t follow rules assigned to it (which is what the more traditional algorithmic search engines like Google and Yahoo! do) but actually can learn from its results..."
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