MSDN Search improves

October 29, 2005 By

Gerardo Dada reports that MSDN Search has improved. I don’t use MSDN Search anymore. I use MSN or Google when I need to find something on MSDN. How about you? How do you find this new search?

Filed Under: development, Microsoft Office
  • http://patrick.geek.nz/ Patrick

    For a long time I’ve just gone to google and done a site:msdn.microsoft.com. In fact, when I’ve wanted to search support.microsoft.com… same deal.

    More recently I’ve stuck site:msdn2.microsoft.com in instead… it’s a hella lot more friendly to Firefox (they realise that their developers use other browsers, definately a step in the right direction.) Sure the docs are for VS2005 mainly, but I’ve not found anything (yet, in my job) that it didn’t have the right answer for.

  • http://patrick.geek.nz/ Patrick

    For a long time I’ve just gone to google and done a site:msdn.microsoft.com. In fact, when I’ve wanted to search support.microsoft.com… same deal.

    More recently I’ve stuck site:msdn2.microsoft.com in instead… it’s a hella lot more friendly to Firefox (they realise that their developers use other browsers, definately a step in the right direction.) Sure the docs are for VS2005 mainly, but I’ve not found anything (yet, in my job) that it didn’t have the right answer for.

  • anon

    Still questionable to mix desktop and CE results together. Just as bad as MSDN library DVDs, which says a lot unfortunately…

  • anon

    Still questionable to mix desktop and CE results together. Just as bad as MSDN library DVDs, which says a lot unfortunately…

  • Jerome Paradis

    Same thing for me. I’m sorry to say that before Google became hot, I was using the MSDN library search. Today, I find the MSDN articles I’m looking for through Google.

  • Jerome Paradis

    Same thing for me. I’m sorry to say that before Google became hot, I was using the MSDN library search. Today, I find the MSDN articles I’m looking for through Google.

  • http://chrisgonyea.com/ Chris Gonyea

    I use Google whenever I have to search Microsoft’s sites (especially the support one). I get the result I want right away, instead of going through pages of random pages that just happen to have the few keywords I want.

  • http://chrisgonyea.com Chris Gonyea

    I use Google whenever I have to search Microsoft’s sites (especially the support one). I get the result I want right away, instead of going through pages of random pages that just happen to have the few keywords I want.