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[ILUG] MSN Search Beta

[ILUG] MSN Search Beta

Justin Mason jm at jmason.org
Thu Nov 11 18:44:45 GMT 2004


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Colm Buckley writes:
> On 11 Nov 2004, at 09:19, Chris Higgins wrote:
> 
> > The MS alternative to google - but look at the URLs that are
> > generated - MS track every search you make !
> 
> In fairness, the links from Google are *also* redirect-based.  However, 
> it's not for the purpose of building up a profile or whatever, it's 
> basically so that we can see which results get the clicks and use those 
> data to tune our index.

Intermittently.  The rest of the time it seems to be direct links,
which is good, as the redirect is (obviously) going to impose
a speed hit.

> Has anyone noticed the increase in our index size yet?  Tee-hee.

no ;)

- --j.
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