UPDATE: Feedback from Customers

Published 18 April 06 09:24 AM

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 MSDN language tags, so we do get some mixed results.  We are triaging the problem in our content and are working with MSN to create a great multi-lingual version of site, so that you can set your language preference.
  • Advanced Search:   Several people have pinged me about advanced search.  Yes it is gone for now. But we are launching a modified UI in Labs later this month to get your feedback on advanced search features.
  • MSN query syntax:  It is true that we support the query syntax which offers powerful features to boost the quality of your search.  I will post a Help Guide later this week to explain how to use it in detail.
  • Outage:  There was a brief outage last night.  We are working to MSN to ensure that this does not happen in the future.  

Thanks for your feedback.  We are listening and want to work with you to improve this search experience.  

by jandrick

Comments

# Arun said on April 18, 2006 1:37 PM:
I tried searching for sql server 2000 sp4 and it doesn't return properly results(not the one i am looking for)

here's the link
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/search/Default.aspx?__VIEWSTATE=&query=sql+server+sp4&siteid=0&tab=0
# Steve.Butler [MSFT] said on April 21, 2006 4:42 PM:
Hi Arun, MSDN Search at this point is scoped only to MSDN sites, MSDN Codezone Partner Sites, Microsoft Forums, and Blogs.

Service Pack 4 download isn't documented in this scope (though as you discovered there are lots documents that reference SQL Server SP4 on MSDN).  It is however documented on MSDN's sister site, Technet - url below...

http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&s6=on&q=sql+server+service+pack+4

We are considering the best way to surface downloads in general.  (though the results for searches scoped to downloads.microsoft.com are somewhat less attractive as yet).
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