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[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 10:21 pm (utc) on Dec. 3, 2004]
very exciting to see this! perhaps we are looking at them making it live across all the MSN sites over the next few days? Or am I being optimistic? lol
Cool, wonder if it's just a test. It's sticking here. First reported here on the 1st of December, hmm...
i'm seing the beta show old msn (yahoo) results.
identical results in all three.
sorry to disappoint ya.
somethings happening today thats for sure.
I also noticed a new significant shift on 1 term I was playing around with optimizing on beta. There have been ongoing subtle shifts in the past week or so, but this was a wallup.
ditto here now for serps, not for the face though. This serp change is quite in contrast to seeing beta serps at beta.search and ink serps on search.msn.com this a.m.
In Firefox, I get the old MSN graphics and the beta shifted results. In IE, I get the new beta graphics with the beta shifted results.
we are still seeing Ink. results in msn.com in central canada.
Are we looking at them rolling this out now and it just taking some time to replicate between data centers as with G?
Man I hope this is for real...
C
May have been my fault i might have gave them enough problems to last a few days :)
Example:
Do you notice when you click next for more results it says Page 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 and so on...
(it says 1 twice) Only after you click next.
Ray
Also, if msn.com was showing beta results to joe public, where are all my new found visitors I should be getting.
So, as an experiment, I deleted all cookies on my PC and searched again on msn.com
Now I get the old msn.com without the beta results.
It looks to me as though something along the lines of the following is happening. If you have used the beta version of msn previously, then msn.com is redirecting to a version showing beta SERPS, otherwise you get old pre beta SERPS. Or something along these lines.
It's very strage but would account for why I do not see the visitors I should if joe public was also seeing the beta results.
Can anyone else who is seeing beta on msn.com try deleting their cookies and see if they get the same result.
I am afraid of the beta, for my terms, is awful, only showing same site for 15 of 20, they can´t launch like that.......... not because of me, but no way 1 company can show 20 diferents domain for top position..... and I am very bad, and I am still doing well in msn.com so..........
Thanks again for the words of encouragement. As you would expect we are not ready to make any commitments to specific timelines. There are a number of things that we need to improve and get right before we can move to our own algorithmic results.
Webhound and others – kind of curious what you mean by MSN Beta being better than our current live in spammy categories – are we showing more spam than on the beta or less? :)-msndude (msd)
posted here: [webmasterworld.com...]
beta on msn.com all day, delete cookies, pre beta shows on msn.com.
Searched on beta then on msn.com, still pre beta showing.
So, it appears it isn;t being rolled out live.
Shame, but it must mean they are doing something that brings it closer.
