{"id":366,"date":"2009-05-20T10:01:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T14:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=366"},"modified":"2009-05-21T10:17:02","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T14:17:02","slug":"microsoft-to-unveil-new-search-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/05\/20\/microsoft-to-unveil-new-search-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to unveil new search engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Word&#8217;s out that <a title=\"Microsoft plans to unveil\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-10805_3-10245079-75.html\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft plans to unveil <\/a>next week a new version of its Internet search engine.\u00a0 Meantime, <a title=\"Yahoo says it plans to improve\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17939_109-10244981-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo says it plans to improve <\/a>the way it&#8217;s engine performs searches.\u00a0 School of Management Professor <a title=\"N. Venkat Venkatraman\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/images\/facstaff\/VenkatramanN.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">N. Venkat Venkatraman<\/a>, who heads the Information Systems Department, can offer perspective on how the moves will affect the battle to compete to search giant Google.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;<\/em><em>It\u2019s encouraging to see Microsoft persevering with the search engine for several reasons: (1) Search is an essential building block for many online services and Microsoft is in the midst of transforming its business model to include online and cloud-based services and it cannot let the gateway be controlled by Google; (2) Mobile search is still in its infancy; (3) Search within social networks and social graphs (a la Facebook and Twitter) is still very immature.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Their current low market share, while discouraging, should not deter Microsoft if they can come up with a more effective search engine that yields relevant, context-specific and timely results.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0Contact N. Venkat Venkatraman, 617-353-7117, <a href=\"mailto:venkat@bu.edu\">venkat@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word&#8217;s out that Microsoft plans to unveil next week a new version of its Internet search engine.\u00a0 Meantime, Yahoo says it plans to improve the way it&#8217;s engine performs searches.\u00a0 School of Management Professor N. Venkat Venkatraman, who heads the Information Systems Department, can offer perspective on how the moves will affect the battle to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[418,682,983,724],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}