lizardx - 8:38 pm on Jan 4, 2005 (gmt 0)

No, I completely disagree. I don't disagree that msn is still a beta product, although in some search areas I think they're ready to go [easy to see because I have seen almost no movement in the results in the terms I'm following], but others not, by a long shot.

Why should a search engine read your mind, fix your mistaken impression for you that the korbel site has something to do with wine? At least based on the korbel site this is an error, so the search engine should not return this site, since you asked for a combination of keywords that don't exist on that site.

Clearly you are looking for korbel and wine. So you should get back pages that deal with korbel and wine. Not Korbel or wine.

Plus that site uses almost all images for its text, no title tags of any significance, really almost no text content at all for a spider to collect.

I'm sure returning the proper pop culture reference is a huge challenge, so it's not surprising that component of the algo still needs a lot of work, it's probably one of the technically more challenging things you can do since there will be so many wide and varied references to any particular pop culture event or product.

I've seen similar weaknesses, in similarly difficult to implement parts of the search algo, this is why it's in beta and not live gold.