Microsoft Launches “Irish” Search Engine
One of the biggest problems with running a country level search engine is getting a good search index. Microsoft has a reasonable index but the Irish index seems to be based on links from Irish sites and Irish IPs. Unfortunately Microsoft is not good at building country level search indices. Then again even Google has problems when it comes to country level searching.
The promo for the launch didn’t quite go as planned. ENN.ie picked up on the UAE results problem. But the results were coming from an unfiltered search. The ‘pages from Ireland’ option is not the default option. Perhaps Microsoft Search should spend less on researchers looking at the “semantic web” and more on people who know how to build search engines and search indices.
Tags: Irishblogs - Search - Irish Search Engines - Microsoft - MSN
Written by John McCormac on July 5th, 2005 with
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