[Tech] Da Microsoft motori di ricerca specializzati per news e weblogs

Microsoft ha intenzione di proporre, entro la fine di quest'anno, due servizi specializzati nella ricerca e nell'aggregazione di informazioni provenienti da fonti giornalistiche tradizionali e dal mondo dei weblogs.



I due servizi si chiameranno rispettivamente MSN Newsbot ed MSN Blogbot:

MSN Newsbot will gather news from more than 4000 sources worldwide. The service is being tested at newsbot.msn.com (anche in lingua italiana, NdR). Google and Yahoo also offer news search services. The MSN Newsbot test version is online in 10 of MSN's 38 markets today and that number will be expanded, Redetzki says. "We're looking at worldwide roll-outs for all of our search products," she adds.



Microsoft is claiming a first with MSN Blogbot, a service that will let users search Web logs, or "blogs," personal-journal type Web pages that have become increasingly popular. Many consumers even use blogs as a news source, according to Microsoft.



MSN Blogbot will aggregate content from hundreds of thousands of Web logs and index that content based on which Web logs are most popular and credible, Redetzki said. The service should go into beta soon, and Microsoft plans to introduce MSN Blogbot worldwide, she said.

Fonte: Yahoo! News.