Search Blog and Comments

Published 08 June 06 10:48 PM

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 and process into how I deal with the comments.  First, I love criticism that is constructive and I love to post your complaints, concerns, and positive remarks, but because this is a very public blog sometimes (meaning a lot) we get spammed or we get out right hate mail.

I usually don't post these comments because they don't offer anything to the conversation and the spam is usually pretty lame.   So if you have feedback I will post it in the comments as long as it is the kind of comment that keeps the conversation going. Foul language, and other non-helpful language will not be posted.  I also want to thank everyone who has taken the time to subscribe to the blog. 

Your help has been instrumental in making improvements in this search experience!

by jandrick

Comments

# Let's be frank said on June 9, 2006 5:45 PM:
As the rendering PM for www.microsoft.com; I often get asked to absorb crazy ideas into the chrome. ...
# Devlin Bentley said on June 10, 2006 7:32 PM:
You really need some way to limit the search scope!  I am searching for how to add scroll bars to a C# form and getting results about Visual Fox Pro.

MSDN has some terrific articles in it, and each article includes lots of meta data about itself, so why not take advantage of it?
# TrackBack said on June 11, 2006 1:09 AM:
# Norman Diamond said on June 27, 2006 4:25 AM:
I already submitted this feedback in another page where it was solicited, feedback to my feedback was null, and visible effects were null, but for null reason I'll repeat it once here.

If an MSDN search yields one or more possible matches on MSDN, then a link appears at the bottom of the results page, offering to repeat the search on MSN instead of MSDN.

If an MSDN search yields zero matches on MSDN, then no such link appears at the bottom of the non-results page.  But this is the situation where a link to MSN search would be most meaningful.  Even though MSDN has no information about the subject, MSN might find pages out on the internet where other Windows programmers might have found answers to the seeker's problem.  So please add the same link offering to repeat the search on MSN even if MSDN had no matches.
# jandrick said on June 27, 2006 12:21 PM:
Norman Thanks for the feedback.  I am currently tracking several issues that I am dealing with under the heading of Defensive design issues.  You make an excellent point about the zero yield results and this is at the top of my list. Thanks for being persistent.  We hope to have this up todate in the next release.
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