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

[Imaster]

I am seeing : Sorry, no results were found containing ****

Yesterday, I was seeing beta results appearing on the main msn search.

[RoySpencer]

as posted in a separate thread, I'm seeing beta results from regular MSN in my log file...about 20 mins ago they were coming hot and heavy, more than yesterday was showing...now search is down here too.

[mat]

Now come on ... no results? ... that's not being fair on MSN ... they do have some results:

[search.msn.com...]

... pick a site - any site ... 2 results.

[RoySpencer]

Does anybody have an educated guess about how much search traffic they would re-route from regular searches during beta testing? 1%? 50%?

[rustybrick]

The rumors are Feb. 1 will be the full roll out.

[Brett_Tabke]

If bugs are fixed, we will see it full time this weekend. Only the announcement and press blitz will come on the first.

[vabtz]

I can't wait. All my pages seem to rank well with them.

[Wbs_Stt]

For those who like data:

I compared results from beta.search.msn.com, msn.com, and search.msn.com in IE, FireFox, and Opera at the following three different times; before installing updates, after installing updates and before rebooting, and after installing updates and after rebooting.

I'm in Raleigh, NC, and the beta results were completely unique in all browsers in all different times.

Essentially, at this time, nothing's going on on this end.

Ben

[RoySpencer]

Brett, sounds like the little birds you've been listening to have been using Bill Gates' bird feeder...

[RoySpencer]

Wbs_Stt:
I haven't been able to catch any beta results occuring at the regular site when *I* did the searching..and I've been trying a whole bunch of times (I'm in Alabama)...but they are definitely showing up in my log files for 50 pages we have that can hardly be found in regular MSN searches, but are #1 or #2 in beta.