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Microsoft has unveiled today its latest software roadmap and it’s disappointing to see how it has become a follower on too many things (a good follower though I have to admit). Actually, the disappointment stems for the lack of innovation in web search. There is clearly an effort but it seems it’s focused on either buying market share / increase brand value (Yahoo anyone?) or buy the users…where is the technology advancement? I mean MS produces some of the best tools in the world why they don’t leverage those products to come up with something innovative? Look at the Mail Application and the public roadmap unveiled today, is an ‘RSS reader’ the only thing they could create? To answer my own question instead of just asking, nowadays everything is pulled from the web and the only “information-push” is done by us. You go to a website, social site, forum or whatever and you ask/post information there because you think is more relevant there. Why the search engine cannot do that? Why my outlook/wordpress cannot do that? In a way, what I’m asking is something like Yahoo! Answers but on a global scale. So, if I don’t find anything searching the past, I can always search in the future

Ok, I’m losing track of what I was saying, but just imagine that you search something about Obama from your mailbox, the search results are poor but the application sends the query/request to an active post in a forums. The result?

1. You become part of that discussion without any user intervention
2. You might get the answer you are looking for in your mail box within few minutes

I think there is some value in this solution, the only problem is that you increase the noise in the web and you increase what Microsoft described the ‘data diaspora’…Actually, I wish this solution was already in the web in some form or another and I’m just not paying enough attention to current trends… if so, please email me!

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