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Date: 1994Jan4

Q.  Is there a better way to search the Microsoft website?

A.

Often when using the search engine at the Microsoft
website it times out and doesn't get back to me or tells
me "no hits" when I know there must be some. When this
happens I go the the Altavista search engine's "advanced" page
(http://www.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=aq)
and do a query like this:

	host:*.microsoft.com AND "SendMessage"

In other words, I ask Altavista to search the Microsoft domain.
It works much than Microsoft's searcher!

--- Update ---

Date: 2003Aug4

Also try http://www.google.com/microsoft
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