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0 pointsNullabillity7y ago0 comments

Have we been reading the same MSDN?

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It is still really unorganized in many ways. The worst thing, I think, is search results still frequently list obsolete MSDN pages higher...and, btw, the new branding is not MSDN, but docs.microsoft.com. They still have a long ways to go, with the typical problems of a large organization tackling a large, kind of amorphous, project.

dend7y ago

docs.microsoft.com PM here - thanks for the feedback! It takes some time to update all our search results across the two major search engines. Given that some pages have less traction than others, the more obscure content sometimes still is indexed as if it's coming from MSDN.

We have moved most of the library to docs, with redirects in place, so hopefully you won't get too many 404s. If you do - feel free to report them here: https://aka.ms/sitefeedback, and we'll address them.

OJFord7y ago

> the two major search engines

What's the second major search engine?

I'm genuinely asking, not meaning to poke if it's Bing - I use DDG but just don't have a feel at all for what's most popular after the obvious one.

Wikipedia has just 7% market share left for the second, and the rest - thinking about it's probably one that's popular in China and unheard of elsewhere?

judge20207y ago

Considering Verizon has stated their Yahoo and AOL properties are worthless[0], it's probably Bing and the search engines that rely on it (including DDG).

0; https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/verizon-signals-its-y...

dend7y ago

I was referring to Bing and Google - not because I am trying to omit anything, but rather because these are the two I use the most on the day-to-day.

user59944617y ago

What is the first search engine?

Baidu in China. Yandex in Russia. Google in the US. Not sure for India and Latin America.

The poster was probably thinking of Bing though, which is ironic because it's maybe less used than these.

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losvedir7y ago

DDG is just Bing, so when Bing updates its results so will DDG.

DaiPlusPlus7y ago

Question: Why is Offline documentation and the Help Viewer in Visual Studio 2017 still horribly broken? I keep it around for when I don’t have internet access but it’s next to useless. Why keep up the pretence? (In comparison, the CHM and DocEx from VS6 through VS2008 work perfectly and are very reliable)

dend7y ago

What particular aspect of it is broken? Genuinely asking the question, because I want to make sure we address major issues in the customer experience that you have.

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jackfoxy7y ago

dend7y ago

OJFord7y ago

> the two major search engines

What's the second major search engine?

I'm genuinely asking, not meaning to poke if it's Bing - I use DDG but just don't have a feel at all for what's most popular after the obvious one.

Wikipedia has just 7% market share left for the second, and the rest - thinking about it's probably one that's popular in China and unheard of elsewhere?

judge20207y ago

Considering Verizon has stated their Yahoo and AOL properties are worthless[0], it's probably Bing and the search engines that rely on it (including DDG).

0; https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/verizon-signals-its-y...

dend7y ago

I was referring to Bing and Google - not because I am trying to omit anything, but rather because these are the two I use the most on the day-to-day.

user59944617y ago

What is the first search engine?

Baidu in China. Yandex in Russia. Google in the US. Not sure for India and Latin America.

The poster was probably thinking of Bing though, which is ironic because it's maybe less used than these.

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losvedir7y ago

DDG is just Bing, so when Bing updates its results so will DDG.

DaiPlusPlus7y ago

dend7y ago

What particular aspect of it is broken? Genuinely asking the question, because I want to make sure we address major issues in the customer experience that you have.

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