"Война моторов" - продолжение
предшествующее по данно теме сообщение см. здесь

Ниже приводятся, как правило, в прямых цитатах, некоторые фрагменты публикаций относительно последнего года предистории "войны моторов" - в основном разумеется со стороны Микрософт деклараций - поясняющие суть событий.

Сначала фрагмент статьи-репортажа с состоявшегося еще год назад в Сиднее, Австралия Fifth International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM):

Microsoft brains take on Google
By Simon Sharwood, July 9, 2003,

SYDNEY--Microsoft has hired top scientists in its quest for search algorithms that will allow it to compete directly with Google.

Microsoft is actively working on new search algorithms it will use to power its own search engine and enter into competition with Google, according to the head of the company's Theory Group.

Speaking here at the Fifth International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), professor Jennifer Tour Chayes said Microsoft is patenting new search algorithms with the goal of replacing the Inktomi technology currently powering MSN's search with Microsoft's own.

"Since Yahoo acquired Inktomi, Bill (Gates) has decided we need our own capacity," she said, adding that the company is already patenting new algorithms it believes have the potential to power a new search engine.

Microsoft last month launched a new search program called MSNBot, which trawls the Web to build an index of HTML links and documents--functions previously left to Inktomi and other partners. That's led to speculation that Microsoft plans to take on Google more directly in the search business.

It is believed to be the first step in a multiyear plan to build new search technology that encompasses home and business users, with the ultimate goal of the technology being to bind Microsoft's various Web sites, applications and the Windows operating system.

Cпустя год - там же и ровно про то самое, но уже теперь самолично Билл Гейтс:

В июле компания планирует внести ряд усовершенствований в свою поисковую машину, чтобы на равных конкурировать с Google и Yahoo.</i> Об этом Билл Гейтс заявил 28 июня в Сиднее ...

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...Net portal wars
By Steven Musil, May 14, 2004

Rivals Yahoo and Google launched assaults on each other's territory as the fight for the Internet search dollars heated up...

Microsoft is also revising its release schedule for advanced search features in its forthcoming Longhorn operating system. Features that Bill Gates has called the "Holy Grail" of the next major version of Windows won't be fully in place until 2009.

The technology, called WinFS, is an add-on the Windows file system Microsoft says will make it easier for users to find data such as documents, e-mail messages and multimedia files--no matter what their format--on local PCs and across the network.

Кроме тог, было бы любопытно, видимо, тем кто темой этой интересуется, глянуть "Б.Гейтс про built-in search capabilities" в его пространной лекции, которую он произнес на Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2003, Los Angeles, California October 27, 2003

При чем следует, как вполне самостоятельную видимо новость отметить, что необычная для Микрософт осторожность в прогнозах стала иногда проскакивать - в данной во всяком случае теме наблюдается:

...Bill Gates' dream of an end-to-end search tool for corporate networks remains just that: a dream, at least until the end of the decade.

Advanced search features that Gates has termed the "Holy Grail" of Longhorn, the next major version of Windows, won't be fully in place until 2009, Bob Muglia, the senior vice president in charge of Windows server development, told ...