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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Microsoft to offer blog searches

According to the IDG News Service: "MSN Blogbot will aggregate content from hundreds of thousands of Web logs and index that content based on which Web logs are most popular and credible, [Karen Redetzki, a product manager for MSN at Microsoft] said. The service should go into beta soon, and Microsoft plans to introduce MSN Blogbot worldwide, she said."

"Also Friday, Microsoft said it is working on a natural language search engine, dubbed MSN Answerbot. This service will take questions from users and find answers on the Internet, rivaling a similar service from Ask Jeeves. No release date for MSN Answerbot has been set, but Redetzki says it is about three years away."

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