MSN reverted to the more standard sized search box

Jakob was right after all

[toolman]

Looks like MSN reverted to the more standard sized search box once again. [msn.com...]

Why fight established conventions?

[joshie76]

Whoah.. that is quite long! I have to say that at first I didn't recognise it as an input box.

[EliteWeb]

I liked the search better before, how the magnafine glass thingy was overlapping a piece of it ;) Sexy.

[Tor]

Finally a decent search box. This one seems to be exactly the same size as the Google search box.

[tedster]

The design is visually confusing, but at least the functionality is there.

Yes, the magnifying glass is gone. It was a bad choice, anyway, IMO. What did it mean, "make this bigger"? And the "hot spot" wasn't even over the image in all browsers.

The width of the new search box varies a lot from browser to browser. With some browsers the white content area is almost the exact same width as the search box, so the search box ends up looking like page decoration.

IMO, all they need is maybe 35 characters input followed by a "search the web" submit. Adding "Search the web" to the left of the input box is more confusing than helpful.

The page is still visually chaotic - it looks like a middle school project. Probably the results of turf wars with various departments all wanting a piece of the home page real estate. What they get is a page no one wants to read!

They should pay Jakob Nielsen his $10,000 and listen to what he tells them. Or pay me the money - I'll set 'em straight ;)