New MSN Search is LIVE

We are seeing a rollout of MSN new search

[drdsl2000]

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It looks like it might be tied into their lateset Windows update.

Results look very good so far, Look out Google!

AND THERE WAS THREE

The Dr

[osfp]

"And yes the results look good"
LOL i can't believe it ,that people find that mess as good results ,if was'nt against the TOS i could give you 1000 search terms and if you find the results relative i'll cut my neck,lets hope that because this is a beta ,there will be changes in the near future.The good news are that pages that where baned (from Yahoo...ligans)are back full indexed in the new MSN.

[dvduval]

1000 out of a billion wouldn't be bad. I can do likewise with Google or Yahoo.

The new MSN is way better than we were seeing a year ago, and way fresher than Yahoo. In most cases, it is even fresher than Google. We just need to watch it. It will take time before we understand this great new addition to the web.

[larryhatch]

I'm seeing the new (beta) results no matter how I crawl into MSN search now.
I can't see the old Y-generated stuff at all any more.
I live in Northern California. - Larry

[McMohan]

Seeing here from Bangalore/India too now. Wasn't live atleast till few hours back.

Mc

[2by4]

I'm finally seeing the beta in msn now too, first time, took long enough, guess the little bird was right this time, that's nice to see.

Now if only they'd stuck with the results from a few weeks ago, oh well... but have some nice high rankings on a few sites, lost others, but I've never really gotten much msn traffic anyway, a bit, but not a lot. We'll see.

It is important to keep in mind that these results are good enough for the current msn users, in other words, almost nobody who uses or reads this forum. Not good enough to get users to switch, but they don't need that yet I guess, work the bugs out, get it better, then later start really going for google, maybe even go for a big google client like AOL, after all, MS and Google made up, sort of anyway, maybe MS will decide to just undercut the aol contract, that would be a good place to start once the serps get better.

[MLHmptn]

Now hopefully we'll see the commercials, magazine ads, news reports and all that come out of the woodwork! Use precisely what Google does not use to market their search engine and gain some market share immediately or at the least let the general public know msn has been improved.

Now the only thing I'm looking forward to is Google and it's announcement that they have eliminated the sandbox and 301 highjacking or that they now have 16,000,000,000 websites in their index or some crap.

Bring the Heat MSN! Google deserves it!

[Freedom]

As soon as MSN make's it's announcement, Google will make an announcment about something and Yahoo will make a announcement about something.

There is a viscious press release war going on and neither search engine wants the other to steal the headlines.

Look at last year, everytime Yahoo released something, Google came in with a surprise announcement of their own. And Vice Versa.

[1milehgh80210]

"...I'm looking forward to is Google and it's announcement that they have eliminated the sandbox and 301 highjacking or that they now have 16,000,000,000 websites in their index or some crap."

ha, they'll never admit to eliminating something they never admitted to having!

[grelmar]

Been seeing the MSN Beta results off msn.com all day now up here (Western Canada) - All browsers. Wasn't there yesterday.

msndude popped up in another thread [webmasterworld.com] to talk about something else (specifically, how MSN is treating META). Mainly noteworthy in that I haven't seen him around in a while.

Are we all that far away from an official announcement now?

[mat]

This feels like the Eurovision Song Contest ...

... and now it's over to Italy for their votes ... and yes, msn.com showing new stuff from here. IE and Firefox.