MSN Blog Writes About Me Again (Oh, And Some Other Guys)
One week out and here's a roundup
We launched the beta just over a week ago and there’s been a lot of discussion about what we’ve been doing.
Reviews of the beta:
WebProNews notes that the beta feedback has been mixed.
Mike Hall loves the fact that we can help him with his algebra homework.
Angsuman Chakraborty thinks that we released the Beta too early. He also questions the veracity of our site descriptions. I want to respond to this by re-iterating that there is no human intervention in our Index; all results are based on our algorithms.
Cyan Bane is excited for desktop search and likes the results & the UI.
Stingo likes the UI but thinks that our relevance needs work.Extending the beta:
The first extensions of the beta! Internetreklama has bookmarklets for msn search on IE, Opera, Mozilla & Firefox. Thanks for making these.
SEO Scoop discusses why someone should consider adding MSN Search to their site.About the blog (which has 249 public subscribers on bloglines, pretty good for 1 week old):
Nathan isn’t sure if the blog is trying too hard or not, but is glad that we are using it.
Mike Manuel has a play-by-play of our first set of posts.
Peter Dawson told us in the blog comments that we should jump on the cluetrain. We're trying!Finally, a contingent of us made it to the Kirkland Google party last night. I was the mystery blogger that Scoble mentioned (I’m the guy on the right next to Stefan B. of Amazon). It was a great time. Thanks for the party Google & welcome to the neighborhood.
--Brady
As I note in the comments, I never said their blog wasn't trying hard enough, I said they were trying too hard to be funny! I think I've made it pretty obvious how impressed I am with their blog. Otherwise, I'm off to look at the MSN Search bookmarklets. Sounds like a great idea to me.
posted by Nathan Weinberg at 9:01 PM
3 Comments:
> I want to respond to this by re-iterating that there is no human intervention in our Index; all results are based on our algorithms.
I am happy to note that. What bothers me is that certain sites seems to have rather childish/strange description, something which is definitely not derived from its contents or meta tags. An example which I quoted there -
"Silicon Valley software giant supplies applications for enterprise information management. Features demos and upgrade downloads."
It is however not so with many other sites. I can clearly see that it places a great emphasis on meta tags, specially the description tag to provide summary information. As you said it is not based on algorithms. I don't disagree with that. However I wonder if the algorithms take as its input some text file (or other information source) which contains specific instructions & descriptions regarding some selected sites :)
The reason for this assumption is because certain site descriptions are clearly not content based.
Looking forward to your thoughts on this.
Oops, I posted on the wrong blog :)
Hehe.
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