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

[Tigrou]

Saw it live (finally)
Atlanta, 6:30 am, 15th.

(flu-infested insomniacs unite!)

[eddy22]

Seeing beta results on msn.com

eddy

[eddy22]

And it's fast...i mean servers are good!

[eddy22]

And the new results are gooooooooood!

Weightage is given to keywords in domain name....

Ok msn u got my applause :)

eddy

[RoySpencer]

I still haven't been able to see it...I wonder if only certain IP address blocks are seeing it?

[eddy22]

Yes, that could be it.....maybe some ip blocks are seeing it...

I'm see it for sure......

like they said, it will be rolled out slowly this week

I am surprised & impressed by the speed of msn search ....not as fast as google but almost.

eddy

[BillyS]

You can see it if you use firefox - it shows on the msn dot com page. It is still not showing on IE - not is it supplying results.

[internetheaven]

Bye Bye Google!

Unless you are the top level business guru of the top investment firm in the world then I don't think any of us are qualified to speculate accurately on how this will affect Google. Yes, I think Google is an awful search engine now, can't find a damn thing! BUT - being good at something isn't what makes you top ...

It's only the Webmaster community that cares (or even knows) about the upcoming change. 95% of search engine users will have no clue and will continue to use Google. Our website traffic will increase due to the change but I can't say that this will impact users for a very long time.

[dvduval]

I can also confirm I am seeing it in Firefox. Besides Brett what Brett said, I also heard from another reliable they were planning to go live on the 15th. I think barring any major glitches, we will indeed see them go live 100% this weekend.

[internetheaven]

Another issue with MSN beta is that most of the sites in almost all topics have only around 5-10% pages crawled as compared to Google.

Personally I have found the MSNBot to be the hardest working and the index to be the quickest updated. Within 24 hours of me launching a site, they had over 500 pages of it showing on Beta. Google still has 1 (the main page) after seven days.

I have found that MSNBot has a certain "dislike" for dynamic pages ... strangely, this includes those that use mod_rewrite to appear static ...

But considering how many of those are spam, the real trick is to start figuring out more creative ways to get rid of it. that means putting down the programming tools, and putting on the thinking caps.

It's so strange isn't it? The majority of "PHD's" (no offense to the better educated amongst us) never seem to be able to think outside their box - they tend to think that programming will always win when it is not programming they are fighting against, it's human creativity and that's something you can't learn in a school.