Wow… the power of blogs. So I post a somewhat snarky comment in the Nokia 6800 post about Robert blowing me off after saying he’d give me his old TiVo, and I get a response the same day.
Now, I’m pretty sure I don’t have the world’s most popular blog, and I’m not the most frequent writer nor do I even stay on relevant topics to most people. And I can imagine there are plenty of sites that filter things so that Robert can see them, not to mention just plain ol’ email that may have been sent by the original comment author.
What’s cool is how fast a random comment on a random post can become visible. This is frickin’ amazing. You’re starting to see some interesting synergies around systems such as search and routing (the IR kind, not the Cisco kind). Very cool.
I’d also like to thank Robert for his kind words… yup, we’re steadily improving MSN Search as well as Desktop Search. MSN Search still isn’t where I want it, but I’m a bit of a perfectionist and my own harshest critic. Well, second harshest… tech support calls from your mom is nature’s way of subtly telling you that you haven’t got it quite right for everyone yet. But, much as people like to say Microsoft can’t ship software, I gotta say that the Search group at MSN is shipping software like clockwork. It’s an awesome group, and you’re going to be amazed at what you see in the next couple of years. We’ve only just begun.
I’m aggregating this site
If Scoble is smart, he’ll aggregate this one too (probably does)
I’m guessing that there’s about 3-4 true search fans out there (in the .Net world) who would read a PhD thesis, read papers about all the cool stuff that happened even before google’s time.
If things go right, in a couple years, there will be 100 true search fans - by search fans I mean CSci kids who want a name in the search business. I’m doing my part over at channel 9
Scoble said we can get a video! I’m phyched - I want to see the begginings of the biggest search project in history, it will be super cool to see the channel9 response to the MSN Search videos. I think your blog traffic is going to go up exponentially starting when we get that first video 
The funny thing will be all the millions and millions of people who could care less what relevancy means to them but subtley switch over to MSN day by day - who care less who made their life that much more productive!
I didn’t email Scoble, I channel9′ed you.
hope I’m not in trouble for doing that http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=89129#89129