Seattle Times Article on MSN Search

Describes how Microsoft built their search engine in two years

[webconnoisseur]

Many of us saw the changes in MSN's search during their development the last couple of years, going from spam plagued results to somewhat respectable results.

Today, I came across this Seattle Times article and enjoyed it because it provides an interesting perspective of what was happening within the Microsoft organization during that time:
[seattletimes.nwsource.com...]

[menton]

Excellent article. Particularly liked this....

"Keith Bernie, set an ambitious goal of indexing 5 billion Web sites....But after a week, they were stuck at 24 documents."