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"In July, the format of the site will change -- and so will the quality of what you get -- and the way it'll look is dramatically improved," Gates said.
"It'll be later this year that we actually roll out what's entirely our own back end driving the search".
"Generic Web search today is actually terrible for that, but we should be able to look at your query and say hey, that's a flight number and give a response that's basically just a direct answer to the question, not a list of random Web sites".
Actually, this feature is currently available at Google and Yahoo.
[google.com...]
[search.yahoo.com...]
An open memo to Bill Gates...
DO: research the competition
DO NOT: re-invent the wheel
I found this particularly amusing:-
Gates said the way search was currently done was "very low-tech," based around taking "a bunch of words and making an index".
Yeah, you're the man Bill.
TJ
