Hi, In the latest release for MSDN Search, we have retired the Search Code funtionality. We currently have a number of solutions including Library Code Examples and Samples, Galleries and Codeplex which allows our users to search and discover code...

We just released an update to MSDN Search and TechNet Search with many of improvements! Here's what's new: Improved Performance Matching refinements listed under each search result MSDN Code Search Preview Easier to expand searches to ...

Last week I was at the Microsoft TechEd Developer Conference in Orlando. It was a great chance to talk with a lot developers about MSDN Search, to get feedback, and to show off what we've been working on with autocomplete, refinements, and more. Here...

Today we released a bunch of improvements to MSDN Search , TechNet Search , and Expression Search . The big change is a huge improvement in autocomplete-- from about 30,000 terms to over 2.4 million terms. In practical terms, this means you're at least...

This release was driven by customer requests, usability testing, and gap analysis of existing Search features, resulting in three primary search improvements: · Make refining searches easier and more usable · Improve relevance of auto-complete ...

You may have noticed we went live tonight with a new MSDN/TechNet search. There's lots to talk about, but given that it's Valentine's Day today, I'm going to leave this at "stay tuned" for now :) Justin Grant or myself (Chris Slemp) will give you the...

Last week we release a major update to our search tool. We shipped a new version based on the Labs prototype that we launched last spring. This release is full of features that were influenced heavily by YOU! Your feedback, all the emails and comments...

If you are a user of Windows Vista there is a really cool Gadget which searches MSDN and provides results in the Gadget. It was developed by Nikhil Kothari whose blog is at http://www.nikhilk.net/ . I will letg you read his post about it. I think it is...

So a few months ago we began the planning for an improved version of the search we provide on MSDN and TechNet. We collected all the feedback we could from the current experience and the feedback from our most recent labs prototype and integrated them...

This week we are hosting the 2007 Global MVP Summit here on the Microsoft Campus. I want to thank all of you who attended the session on VB Help documentation. I look forward to hearing from and corresponding with you about how we can make Microsoft's...

This just a little note to first say thanks for all the feedback that you have all been sending me of late and I wanted to give you a heads up on some work that some of my co-workers have been doing in the area of discovery. Their blog is located at...

For the past year, we’ve seen large improvements in relevance and indexing from Live Search —the new, more relevant search engine which powers search on MSN , Microsoft.com , MSDN , TechNet , and inside Visual Studio 2005 ’s Online Search feature. But...

I was looking at the Q&A site on Windows live today. There are lots of questions that could be found in TechNet Forum. For example this question titled " Active directory (AD) and non exchange based EMail addresses " As a component of search, is this...

We are in the process of updating our labs site where we are working on future innovations and current in-development projects. The address is below: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/v20/ Our old labs site will still be around until we decommission...

Recently, we have had lots of questions around the differences between pure vanilla MSN search and the MSDN Search Site based on Windows Live. The typical question is about why some content shows up in the MSN Search and not in the MSDN Search Site. The...

Thanks to everyone who has been submitting comments to the blog about the new search prototype. I want to thank you for taking the time to suggest features or to offer scenarios that you are having trouble with. I wanted to offer a little bit of transparency...

Today we released the TechNet scoped version our search experience, I hope you will take a minute, check it out and let us know what you think. We are sharing the learning with our IT pro brothers to improve the IT pro/Dev experience here at Microsoft...

Several months ago I promised we would listen and make changes to the search site as you provided feedback. In the last two months since we launched the current search, we have been listening to your feedback and we are working to improve a few more things...

I recently spoke to the folks at MSDN TV. I hope this helps you to understand the process that we have been using in developing a new search. Remember, I promised you all that we are just starting this process. We have some new things in the pipeline...

Just a quick note. (I will follow up with more later.) So far we have had mixed results from you the customer. Thanks for all the constructive comments. So let me address a few: Language Support: Today MSN's crawler doesn't do a great job of reading...

The MSDN and TechNet search team would like to announce to you the launch of a new MSDN search based on the MSN® Search Web Service. Built on the experience gathered during our Labs deployment, the search team has spent the last three months iterating...

I was reading Tom Peters blog this morning and I was looking through his blog roll and found this site http://www.researchbuzz.com/ linked there. There is great information and articles on the work that different search teams in the industry are doing...

I am updating the look and title today because we also support TechNet search on my team and we want to share our developments with that community as well. Thanks.

The Search team is just coming to the end of our 1st production development cycle with the new codebase. After a dozen or so public builds and plenty of feedback, the project has been signed off for production. It'll take a few days to get the release...

For those of you interested in more information on how IE7 takes advantage of OpenSearch check out the post on the IE7 Blog about opensearch. There is also a discussion thread that is providing some great feedback for us on channel9 . If you haven...