Microsoft is testing a new search

Kumo - in Japanese "cloud" and "spider."
And also this is the code name of Microsoft's new search engine, which yesterday became available on the corporate network for testing by all who want it ...


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Excerpts from email Satya Nadella (main search):

From: Satya Nadella
Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 4:18 PM
To: Microsoft – All Employees (QBDG)
Subject: Announcement: Internal Search Test Experience

"... We worked a lot to improve our search and now we want to share the results of our progress with you. We are launching a new test program kumo.com for employees - so that they can try it themselves and give us their feedback.
Kumo.com is only available on our intranet and in order for feedback to last us for a long time, we will redirect all internal traffic from live.com to the test site within a few days. "

“Despite the progress that the search engines have made, 40% of the requests remain without a proper response, 50% of the requests are done by the user again, 46% of the search sessions take more than 20 minutes . These and other numbers suggest that users often do not find what they want from the search today. "

“We believe that we can provide the best search, which will not only search, but also help solve the problems of users. The features will be different depending on the country, but you will see the search results organized so as to save you more time. In the left pane are available tools designed to help in solving your search tasks. Other features like session history and hover previews will help increase search efficiency. ”

Original article (eng) and screenshots (bottom of page): here

... somehow not hooked. And you?