Insider Reporting From Microsoft Search Champs by Robin Good - Microsoft generous effort to bring together a unique group of technology users, evangelists, reporters, entrepreneurs, developers and passionate bloggers for a 2-day collaborative review of the new and upcoming Microsoft Search engine tool(s) paid back handsomely to both the hosts and the highly diversified group of participants.

Having been invited by Microsoft to participate in this event was as much surprise to me as clear indication that my conspicuous personal investments in independent reporting and knowledge sharing was finally getting some mileage. As Robert Scoble so effectively puts it: “good bloggers get noticed”.

Here is my personal report on the Microsoft Search Champs event, which took place October 3 through 5 2004. I took note of only of a fraction during these two very intense 2 and half days in Seattle. There is a lot more than it should be said and written and in this respect my writing here below doesn’t pretened to be an exhaustive journalistic account but rather a personal and much opinionated review of what really stroke me most as the event unfolded and I tried to make sense of what we had all learned from it.

It is a report not about what Microsoft has in plan for up-and-coming new Search Engine, on which I can actually say very little, but about the event itself, the logistics, the learning experiences, the good ideas and the great people that made it, at least for me, this unique a truly memorable one. [Editors Note: Congratulations Robin upon being invited and participating at this excellent conference!]