Gates on MSN Search

Bill Gates reveals some interesting tidbits about the timeframe for launching the new MSN Search in this ZDNet article:

In July [2004], the format of the site will change -- and so will the quality of what you get -- and the way it'll look is dramatically improved. It'll be later this year that we actually roll out what's entirely our own back end driving the search.

Gates also briefly mentions plans to apply natural language understanding and personalization techniques to deliver better search results.