Comments on: Microsoft’s Live Search Shutsdown Advanced Search Queries

By: Miles Woolgar

Miles Woolgar — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:11:15 +0000

Soon it will all be guess work

By: Jonix

Jonix — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:59:50 +0000

MSFT with all power that they have, can’t handle it? i’m astonished with this! Come on, gives a break, live is the same has msn was, only the layout has changed, the search engine is very poor!

By: Owen

Owen — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 22:03:06 +0000

My question is this. Google seems to be handling the load just fine. Are they just throwing more hardware at the problem, or is their engine just more performant?

By: Mark Barrera

Mark Barrera — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:37:27 +0000

MSFT should be giving MORE data and tools than Yahoo and Google to encourage more usage and not cutting back like they are doing. Seems like MSFT just keeps taking steps backwards…

By: rick gregory

rick gregory — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:55:19 +0000

Hmm… So I posted a slightly snarky comment on the post you linked to about how they, perhaps, were worried that they couldn’t handle the load from all of those searches, clicked Submit and… got…

“The server at blogs.msdn.com is taking too long to respond.”

Hmm…

By: Jim Kukral

Jim Kukral — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:51:06 +0000

Doesn’t sound too smart.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 15:53:12 +0000

It doesn’t appear they will enable the same functionality, they will offer something watered down – a glimpse of links like in Google – but it just doesn’t seem right for them to waste the time on it.

By: Brian Chappell

Brian Chappell — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:24:08 +0000

Man what would happen if yahoo’s link operator went toast. SEO’s would be in a heap of trouble.

Google’s is getting better with WBM Tools but you cant see competitor’s links.