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Overture and MSN Beta

Is MSN about to drop Overture?

         

jimsthoughts

11:07 pm on Aug 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I've heard that MSN has a beta version that doesn't include LookSmart listings....but from the beta that I see it's Overture that's missing.
Not sure what this means....but it's what I see right now.
[beta.search.msn.com...]

Ally_Cat

11:13 pm on Aug 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Maybe they have the OV ads turned off during the beta phase so that they don't screw up impressions while testing? That would be my first thought.

BTW - Does anyone else get a very poorly targeted pop-up from ads.x10.com with msn in the URL when they searched there? Please tell me this isn't the direction MSN is taking with search. Ugh.

Imaster

11:23 pm on Aug 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I didn't get that pop-up, but I recall having got the same pop-up many times before.

A search done on the beta as well as normal showed that overture results are missing on beta, whereas they exists in the normal search. LookSmart results are still there in both.

[search.msn.com...]

[beta.search.msn.com...]

Ally_Cat

11:24 pm on Aug 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I seem to remember OV results were missing the last time their search was in beta as well. Even once they started serving the beta pages to random surfers.