The Future of Search - Interviews by the Chief Technology Managers about their Directions
MSN Search
http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2006/03/03/543032.aspx
We believe that search is in its infancy. We believe there is massive opportunity to improve every aspect of the search experience including: basic web relevancy, new types of media, refining and interacting with your results, leveraging search server infrastructure to provide new services that were never before imagined, and so much more. We are committed to building the world’s best search engine which helps you get your answers as quickly as possible – and we are excited to spend many years continuing to innovate on our customer’s behalf.
When you talk about basic web relevancy, our customers report that we’ve made some great progress over the past year, and I know that our research and engineering pipeline is overflowing with intriguing ideas that we will test and release as they’re ready. Certainly newer areas of search like desktop search and mapping are areas in which many reviewers and bloggers believe we have some best-in-class features. Next week Christopher Payne, VP of Search, will be in San Diego at ETech showing some intriguing improvements to our service, we hope these continue the trend.
That said, we won’t try to predict the progress of our competitors and so we won’t forecast when we might take the lead, but this is a long term game and we are committed to helping drive the next wave of innovation in search for our customers.
Yahoo Search
http://www.thedeal.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=TheDeal/TDDArticle/TDPrinterFriendly&c=TDDArticle&cid=1140767695953&ArtID=1140767695953
We at Yahoo are sometimes guilty of not projecting the innovation as heavily. Where I think we have the advantage is being able to provide a totality of experience to the user, and to a larger user base, than Google can deal with. While I realize I’m not being specific in saying you’re going to see this or that particular experience, my point is the capability that Yahoo has is around the fact that our touch point isn’t fully, or even for the most part, search. Our touch points are users all over their individual Internet experience. There are many more of them.
If you ask the question, “What can Yahoo hope to innovate that Google probably wouldn’t?” the answer is that it’s to exploit these characteristics, because we have the capability to do so. The goal is to create an ecosystem we call the social media space where you don’t just have big media producing the content. Instead, you have this long tail of content creators, potentially a billion people all writing their own opinions and views that we, Yahoo, will sift through to make sense of. It’s taking all of this together and providing a total information experience, and I believe we have a good shot of leading that.
Ask Search
http://media.webmasterradio.fm/episodes/audio/2006/SC022706.mp3
Danny Sullivan moderates the keynote by Barry Diller at SES New York. Diller is currently the Chairman of Expedia and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp, an interactive commerce conglomerate and the parent of companies including Home Shopping Network, Ticketmaster, Match.com and Citysearch. In 2005, IAC/InterActiveCorp acquired Ask Jeeves, marking a strategic move into the Internet search category. Diller has been on the board of The Coca-Cola Company since 2002. The new headquarters of IAC/InterActiveCorp was designed by Frank Gehry and is scheduled to open summer 2006 at 18th Street and the West Side Highway in Manhattan’s fashionable Chelsea neighborhood.
The Future of Search - Interviews by the Chief Technology Managers about their Directions
MSN Search
http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2006/03/03/543032.aspx
We believe that search is in its infancy. We believe there is massive opportunity to improve every aspect of the search experience including: basic web relevancy, new types of media, refining and interacting with your results, leveraging search server infrastructure to provide new services that were never before imagined, and so much more. We are committed to building the world’s best search engine which helps you get your answers as quickly as possible – and we are excited to spend many years continuing to innovate on our customer’s behalf.
When you talk about basic web relevancy, our customers report that we’ve made some great progress over the past year, and I know that our research and engineering pipeline is overflowing with intriguing ideas that we will test and release as they’re ready. Certainly newer areas of search like desktop search and mapping are areas in which many reviewers and bloggers believe we have some best-in-class features. Next week Christopher Payne, VP of Search, will be in San Diego at ETech showing some intriguing improvements to our service, we hope these continue the trend.
That said, we won’t try to predict the progress of our competitors and so we won’t forecast when we might take the lead, but this is a long term game and we are committed to helping drive the next wave of innovation in search for our customers.
Yahoo Search
http://www.thedeal.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=TheDeal/TDDArticle/TDPrinterFriendly&c=TDDArticle&cid=1140767695953&ArtID=1140767695953
We at Yahoo are sometimes guilty of not projecting the innovation as heavily. Where I think we have the advantage is being able to provide a totality of experience to the user, and to a larger user base, than Google can deal with. While I realize I’m not being specific in saying you’re going to see this or that particular experience, my point is the capability that Yahoo has is around the fact that our touch point isn’t fully, or even for the most part, search. Our touch points are users all over their individual Internet experience. There are many more of them.
If you ask the question, “What can Yahoo hope to innovate that Google probably wouldn’t?” the answer is that it’s to exploit these characteristics, because we have the capability to do so. The goal is to create an ecosystem we call the social media space where you don’t just have big media producing the content. Instead, you have this long tail of content creators, potentially a billion people all writing their own opinions and views that we, Yahoo, will sift through to make sense of. It’s taking all of this together and providing a total information experience, and I believe we have a good shot of leading that.
Ask Search
http://media.webmasterradio.fm/episodes/audio/2006/SC022706.mp3
Danny Sullivan moderates the keynote by Barry Diller at SES New York. Diller is currently the Chairman of Expedia and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IAC/InterActiveCorp, an interactive commerce conglomerate and the parent of companies including Home Shopping Network, Ticketmaster, Match.com and Citysearch. In 2005, IAC/InterActiveCorp acquired Ask Jeeves, marking a strategic move into the Internet search category. Diller has been on the board of The Coca-Cola Company since 2002. The new headquarters of IAC/InterActiveCorp was designed by Frank Gehry and is scheduled to open summer 2006 at 18th Street and the West Side Highway in Manhattan’s fashionable Chelsea neighborhood.