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Who Powers MSN Japan Search?

Where do they get their index?

         

daikon

6:23 am on Dec 19, 2001 (gmt 0)

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MSN.co.jp, that is....

The directory is from LookSmart, but where is their index from? It used to be AltaVista, yes? But it doesn't look like AV now...

(edited by: Woz at 8:31 am (gmt) on Dec. 19, 2001)

bill

8:16 am on Dec 19, 2001 (gmt 0)

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The directory is from BTLookSmart [btlooksmart.com], which is a joint venture between British Telecommunications and LookSmart. According to their site they target markets in Japan, the UK and France...so you'll see some different LookSmart results in those areas.

According to this press release [inktomi.com], since June 2001, Inktomi is providing full-text results for MSN Search in Japan [search.msn.co.jp], Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia.

The AltaVista results must have been phased out this past summer.

daikon

1:30 am on Dec 20, 2001 (gmt 0)

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Thanks bill. And thanks Woz for sorting me out.