TechFlash has a great post covering Viveri, a Microsoft search research site.
Microsoft researchers plan to release their own search site to test their latest technologies separate from the company’s Live Search engine. The site, code-named Viveri, was one of the more interesting finds on the floor here today at the company’s annual TechFest event.
Although some of the technologies from Viveri could ultimately be incorporated into Live Search, the site will give researchers a way of testing new concepts, and getting public feedback, without going through the formal process of adding them to the main Microsoft search engine, said Robert Rounthwaite, a Microsoft Research software architect.
Read more (and see a screenshot) over at TechFlash.
