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"At Microsoft Corp., researchers are exploring ways to return specific facts rather than entire documents. A search for "Marilyn Monroe's birthday" would return an answer, "June 1, 1926," instead of sites on her famous "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" performance."
I am greatly worried about this because it could acutally legally STEAL my content and present it to the user.
For example:
In the microsoft search engine: A person searches for: "Where are the best hotels in bali?"
The answer from Microsoft Search is this:
Jimbaran is where you will find some of the best hotels in Bali, such as the Four Seasons, the Villa Hanini and Pansea Hotel among others.From example.com [example.com]
Microsoft EXTRACTS the answer from content sites and presents it on its own page, totally circumventing the content sites advertising!
Its totally legal because they cite the source, provide the link, and only take a small segment of the page. but the visitor never has to visit MY site because the answer was presented to them!
[edited by: oilman at 7:21 pm (utc) on Mar. 31, 2004]
[edit reason] 'examplified' linkless url [/edit]
Every day several users come to my site after asking Google "elevation mount widget". The answer to their question is in the snippet, but at least some click on the link all the same.
People use search engines for the variety of answers they can get (even if they think it's only 10). Besides, how will M$ know they pulled the right answer? I could name a few sites off the top of my head that delibratly provide false information and they rank in the top 10.
