Search Engine Journal

Microsoft brains take on Google brawn: “Microsoft has hired top scientists in its quest for search algorithms that will allow it to compete directly with Google.
Microsoft is actively working on new search algorithms it will use to power its own search engine and enter into competition with Google, according to the head of the company’s Theory Group. Speaking here at the Fifth International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), professor Jennifer Tour Chayes said Microsoft is patenting new search algorithms with the goal of replacing the Inktomi technology currently powering MSN’s search with Microsoft’s own.
‘Since Yahoo acquired Inktomi, Bill (Gates) has decided we need our own capacity,’ she said, adding that the company is already patenting new algorithms it believes have the potential to power a new search engine.”