Seeing new results display - possibly testing?

Bullet list with pop-up window showing thumbnails

[pleeker]

Sorry if this is old - just slap me if it is.

I was just looking through referrer logs and came across a MSN referrer that looked new. Clicked on it, and the resulting SERP is showing the top 10 listings as a bulleted list, and a new window opens up with thumbnails of the top 6 sites (when available).

Here's a URL that I hope I can include, it's a search for "Webmaster World":

[search.msn.com...]

Basically, it's the same URL as regular MSN Search, but results.aspx has become spresults.aspx.

[papamaku]

even more interesting without the form=IE4 bit:

[search.msn.com...]

[edit] sorry, just re-read your msg, but weird as mine didnt redirect to the images first time round (in Firefox), but does now [/edit]

seems like they've partnered with www.girafa.com for the thumbnails

[webhound]

I have seen this many times in our logs, but are the results different than that of the normal MSN search?

I would love to think that they are going live but don't think this is the case. :-(

[angiolo]

The preview seems similar to the Alexa engine.
Would they track clicks as well?