Microsoft Eyes Master Search Tool
Microsoft is looking beyond Internet searches, heading into its battle with Google with technology designed to allow people to scour their e-mails, personal computers and even hefty databases for information.
The search system will give consumers "an end-to-end system for searching across any data type," Yusuf Mehdi, head of Microsoft's MSN division, told analysts at a Goldman Sachs Internet conference Wednesday in Las Vegas. His remarks were broadcast online.
The technology is designed as a major search improvement for users trying to grapple with an increasing amount of digital information, offering a single hunting system instead of several different search engines, file-management systems or other tools.
Microsoft's Windows operating system, which is on 90 percent of personal computers, provides tools for file management on PCs. But Mehdi conceded it doesn't have a quick system for searching.
"I think it's fair to say that we will tackle all of the things that you expect, including PC search, as part of the MSN effort," Mehdi said.
Microsoft plans to release an early version of the technology soon, as part of the software giant's push to compete with Internet search leader Google. A final version is expected in the next 12 months, Mehdi said.
He added that the new technology would be available long before the next version of Windows, which isn't expected until 2006. Microsoft has previously said that improving PC search will be a key component of that system, code-named Longhorn.
Joe Wilcox, an analyst with Jupiter Research, said the end-to-end search technology illustrates how concerned Microsoft is with besting rivals including Google, the current Internet search favorite. He expects Google to also release technology soon for searching the desktop.
The concern is that Google and others will increasingly encroach on Microsoft's control over desktop computing.
"Microsoft is scrambling to protect its turf," Wilcox said, noting that rival Apple Computer also has a more advanced system for searching both the Internet and Apple computers.
From wired.com
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The search system will give consumers "an end-to-end system for searching across any data type," Yusuf Mehdi, head of Microsoft's MSN division, told analysts at a Goldman Sachs Internet conference Wednesday in Las Vegas. His remarks were broadcast online.
The technology is designed as a major search improvement for users trying to grapple with an increasing amount of digital information, offering a single hunting system instead of several different search engines, file-management systems or other tools.
Microsoft's Windows operating system, which is on 90 percent of personal computers, provides tools for file management on PCs. But Mehdi conceded it doesn't have a quick system for searching.
"I think it's fair to say that we will tackle all of the things that you expect, including PC search, as part of the MSN effort," Mehdi said.
Microsoft plans to release an early version of the technology soon, as part of the software giant's push to compete with Internet search leader Google. A final version is expected in the next 12 months, Mehdi said.
He added that the new technology would be available long before the next version of Windows, which isn't expected until 2006. Microsoft has previously said that improving PC search will be a key component of that system, code-named Longhorn.
Joe Wilcox, an analyst with Jupiter Research, said the end-to-end search technology illustrates how concerned Microsoft is with besting rivals including Google, the current Internet search favorite. He expects Google to also release technology soon for searching the desktop.
The concern is that Google and others will increasingly encroach on Microsoft's control over desktop computing.
"Microsoft is scrambling to protect its turf," Wilcox said, noting that rival Apple Computer also has a more advanced system for searching both the Internet and Apple computers.
From wired.com
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