MSDN Search

Whenever you talk about search engine everyone talks about Google search. But microsoft is comming up which is still in Beta stage called MSDN Search. This is developed in corodination with MSN search.

The MSDN team at Microsoft has been working on improving search. Recently, the team launched a new MSDN Search Beta, integrating more relevant search from Microsoft and the community into one easy-to-use page. This beta rolls out to all very soon. You can send the your feedback.

This is at present limited to MSDN only. You will be able to search MSDN Forums with 10s of thousands of answered questions. You can also find resources from Codezone within Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 by using Help…Search and clicking on the 'Codezone' tab! They have improved relevance for MSDN Online search results via leveraging implicit user feedback. Over the next few months, relevance (especially for common queries) should improve significantly as the system is populated with more data. Other improvements include the ability to switch back and forth between Microsoft and community results with one click without leaving the search page, simpler UI which aligns well with Visual Studio 2005's search UI and online integration into Visual Studio 2005. You can find resources from MSDN Forums within Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 by using Help…Search and clicking on the 'Questions' tab!

Many more features are on the way, including an MSN-based back-end, product/technology filtering, and much more. I hope we will see MSDN search continuing to get better.