MSN will launch their MSN Search Service in 25 markets and 10 languages worldwide, today.
The MSN Search engine has been in public beta testing since November 2004. The MSN Search team have been gathering feedback from a variety of different users in order to release their finely tuned search engine.
Through gathering this feedback the MSN Search team have been listening to customers throughout the whole development process. The end result is a search engine that allows customers to search specific tailored queries for their own needs. MSN Search allows users to search the Web, news, images, music, desktop and Microsoft Encarta. Users can query the search engine and receive more than 1.5 million answers from Encarta. Users can also type the name of an artist, song or album into MSN Search and get links to information on those songs and sample music. In indexing results for their search engine, MSN have Search bots that index daily or weekly to ensure results are accurate and up to date.
In a statement to associated press, Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of the MSN Information Services & Merchant Platform division at Microsoft said Were committed to continuous improvement in the speed, precision and ease of use of our search service ... this built-from-the-ground-up version of MSN Search provides an infrastructure that enables us to rapidly innovate and give consumers precisely the information theyre looking for, no matter where its located"
MSN Search users can also use search tools that give them more control over how and where they search for information. Search builder allows people to extensively customize searches by emphasizing or de-emphasizing certain search criteria such as a specific site or domain, country or region, or language via a menu of adjustable onscreen dials. Search near me offers users the ability to tailor their search results to a specific geographic location to ensure results relevant to where they are or where they want to go.
Along with today's announcement, MSN have also released an updated Desktop Search Beta. The new version of the Toolbar Suite (02.00.0001.1203) fixes several bugs, stability and robustness issues and has fixed the virus pop ups problem.
MSN is planning to promote their newly launched search engine with TV adverts, web adverts and in magazines across the United States.
Download: MSN Toolbar Suite Beta with MSN Desktop Search
View: MSN Search
View: MSN Search Weblog
The MSN Search engine has been in public beta testing since November 2004. The MSN Search team have been gathering feedback from a variety of different users in order to release their finely tuned search engine.
Through gathering this feedback the MSN Search team have been listening to customers throughout the whole development process. The end result is a search engine that allows customers to search specific tailored queries for their own needs. MSN Search allows users to search the Web, news, images, music, desktop and Microsoft Encarta. Users can query the search engine and receive more than 1.5 million answers from Encarta. Users can also type the name of an artist, song or album into MSN Search and get links to information on those songs and sample music. In indexing results for their search engine, MSN have Search bots that index daily or weekly to ensure results are accurate and up to date.
In a statement to associated press, Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president of the MSN Information Services & Merchant Platform division at Microsoft said Were committed to continuous improvement in the speed, precision and ease of use of our search service ... this built-from-the-ground-up version of MSN Search provides an infrastructure that enables us to rapidly innovate and give consumers precisely the information theyre looking for, no matter where its located"
MSN Search users can also use search tools that give them more control over how and where they search for information. Search builder allows people to extensively customize searches by emphasizing or de-emphasizing certain search criteria such as a specific site or domain, country or region, or language via a menu of adjustable onscreen dials. Search near me offers users the ability to tailor their search results to a specific geographic location to ensure results relevant to where they are or where they want to go.
Along with today's announcement, MSN have also released an updated Desktop Search Beta. The new version of the Toolbar Suite (02.00.0001.1203) fixes several bugs, stability and robustness issues and has fixed the virus pop ups problem.
MSN is planning to promote their newly launched search engine with TV adverts, web adverts and in magazines across the United States.
Download: MSN Toolbar Suite Beta with MSN Desktop Search View: MSN Search View: MSN Search Weblog
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DVI, VGA, S-video and composite video support;
AirPort Extreme 54 Mbps 802.11g WiFi fast wireless networking and internal Bluetooth 2.0+EDR;
Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000BASE-T) and 56K V.92 modem;
two USB 2.0 ports, FireWire 400 and 800;
a scrolling TrackPad; and
illuminated keyboard with ambient light sensor.
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512MB of 333 MHz DDR SDRAM, with one open memory slot, expandable up to 2GB;
an 80GB (5400 rpm) Ultra ATA/100 hard drive with Sudden Motion Sensor;
a slot-load Combo (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) optical drive;
ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics with 64MB video memory;
DVI, VGA, S-video and composite video support;
AirPort Extreme 54 Mbps 802.11g WiFi fast wireless networking and internal Bluetooth 2.0+EDR;
Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000BASE-T) and 56K V.92 modem;
two USB 2.0 ports, FireWire 400 and 800;
a scrolling TrackPad; and
illuminated keyboard with ambient light sensor.
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a slot-load 8X SuperDrive (DVDฑRW/CD-RW) optical drive;
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DVI, VGA, S-video and composite video support;
AirPort Extreme 54 Mbps 802.11g WiFi fast wireless networking and internal Bluetooth 2.0+EDR;
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two USB 2.0 ports and Firewire 400; and
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Never say never! Before Google became what it is now no one would have said it would beat Yahoo. I didn't even think it would when i first started using Google as Yahoo was a household name, much like google is today.
If anything the competition is good as we benifit, but i have to say ATM the MSN search is, feature-wise, a lot better.
at least msn's search has caching since i last looked - the exlcusion of that last time was a major turn off for me. Unforunately i'm getting dns errors looking up the site (cc.msnscache.co.uk) that holds all the cached content.. not so good, i'm sure that probel is either local to me, or will be resolved soon. Now they just need to start caching newsgroups and really i'd have no reason to still use google. I do like the clean and modern look of msn's search tho. There appears to be a branding problem on msn.co.uk groups search.
as for yahoo, i've not used it since the early 90's, it's never thrown up good results for me, and i hate the bloated frontpage, and laayout, and lack of caching.
Maybe you're going to the wrong search front page
http://search.yahoo.com/
It's then configurable so you can close the news items, if you wish.
Makes it look basically like Google.
You then can slim it down further here:
http://search.yahoo.com/preferences/edit_tabs
But I agree lack of caching is bad...
The new MSN Search is very powerful, an impressive achievement for sure, but I'm not convinced it's better than Google.
Thanks, but no thanks, Microsoft.
anyways, i don't like msn's search, not becuase sponsored and paid for "advertising" was advertised, and not advertising something i think should be advertised, or scared to get brainwashed, or something silly and stupid. I just don't like it cuz I don't get the results i want. I get more of a response than a result.
Maybe i just need to get used to it, who knows.
after some little experiments I would say, msnsearch returns better results. The only requirement for him - you have to select the corrrect county, not a language - this is strange
Last edited by 53839 on 01 Feb 2005 - 12:02
Never mind...I see they released a "Beta Refresh".
Last edited by 56703 on 01 Feb 2005 - 15:20
Wonder how long you'll have to wait for this "Google release".....
Basketball MSN Search
There you go.
BUT google have the advantage :
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en
One thing I noticed about Google is their image search is becomming more and more useless. Lots of the images don't exist anymore.
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