Finally, MSN Search was visited by Channel 9 – the amazing MSDN Web site that brings the people of Microsoft to you in video.  Erik Selberg and I joined Robert Scoble for a lively, hour-long discussion.  Check out the video here.

 

We talk about:

• the neural network (see June 21 post), 01:30
• static versus dynamic rank (see our May 03 post), 04:00

• search engine optimization, 08:20

• the nature of relevance, 12:00

• index size (see Aug 29 Post), 17:00

• the 64 bit Windows infrastructure of MSN Search, 24:00

• Link based importance, 38:00

And lots more — check it out! BTW, in a small world moment, Erik and I worked together on software for psychology experiments when we attended Carnegie Mellon way back in 1990. We also shared a wall between our respective abodes, and… wait, those stories are for a different blog!

 

Andy Edmonds, Program Management