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Originally Posted by perth
Hrm. We've see this before, haven't we? It changes based on the last poster.
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Yea, that's the problem with generic spidering of executable URLs. But, what is weird in this case is that there is a version skew between the words that are in the search index and the content displayed in the results page. It's indexed with "Gwennie", displayed with "Wolf", and linked to the last poster.
I met with the search team at MSN last year; they're all focused on low level details like having the web crawler make direct calls to WinSock and tuning the C code. Yet, they have these serious algorithmic problems with URL normalization and index/display version skews.
When I interviewed there it was like Oil & Water, we didn't mix at all. I do high level programming in Java, Tomcat, and Linux. That wasn't popular with them. The only reason I went up there was because their recruiters called me.
Glad to see they've launched MSN Search and show us how 'great' it is.