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[PhysOrg]MS testing new search engine Kumo

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Microsoft testing new Internet search engine Kumo

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A Kumo.com search engine being privately tested by Microsoft workers is reportedly based on semantic technology that enables it to understand sentences and relationships between words.

Current search engines, including software used by Google, rely on matching words typed into search boxes with those found at websites and in data found on the Internet.


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The Internet has buzzed with speculation regarding whether Microsoft intends to replace its Live Search with Kumo since an internal memo written about it by Satya Nadella, a Microsoft senior vice president, was leaked online this week.

Microsoft said Tuesday that the memo that ricocheted quickly about the Web "is in fact accurate."


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"...As for rebranding, it's something we're still considering."

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Interesting. Microsoft would certainly go along way in winning some of my search traffic if they could accurately implement contextually aware searching into their system.
even then I think I'll stick with my googly eyed friend xD

interesting stuff either way.
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Originally Posted by Chipp
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Interesting. Microsoft would certainly go along way in winning some of my search traffic if they could accurately implement contextually aware searching into their system.

Even more so than a "smarter" search engine that can tell what you are looking for, I would like to see one that finds things as obscure as a single listing on the net, wherever it may be. You do not know how much time and BS it took me to get my PC repair website even remotely high up on the Google search engine, because the top ones are all paying their way to be there.

Get this- I cannot get even top billing if I search the actual full name of my company, and it uses my last name! It's not like I named it "Expert PC repair" or something that has been done a million times. It has my last name, and it is a very unique one at that.

At least if you Google "Philadelphia PC repair", I am on the first page, and I just got it to where if you search the name of the company in Google Maps, I am the top listed item and it even has directions and reviews and such.

I guess I cannot complain too much though, I get the site for free and have never paid a dime for advertising.
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I see Microsoft has developed a liking to Japanese (Kumo meaning spider, and one of their projects being Midori, which means Green)...
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