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MSN Search Has Arrived

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the little-bit-o-competition dept.

strikehosting writes "The new MSN Search, "the first-ever search engine built from the ground up by Microsoft", has been launched worldwide. It will be available in 25 markets and 10 languages. A few features though, like MSN Music and 'Search Near Me', are available only in the United States. Sporting a cleaner look and a simplified layout, MSN Search has a more prominent position on the home page. The features that are available here include tabs that allow consumers to target searches to the Web, news, images, music, desktop or Microsoft Encarta."

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  1. Google take note... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    See Google, you can take stuff out of beta!

  2. Better results than Google? by Aurix · · Score: 5, Funny

    For the few searches I've used MSN for, it seems to have better results than Google.

    Anyone else noticing this?

    1. Re:Better results than Google? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Google beats MSN search by 1,090,000 naked boobies to 667,529 naked boobies.

    2. Re:Better results than Google? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Um, no.

      Every test of the MS's search tech has shown it to be barely functional at best.

      I don't know what the fuck is about MS that drives people to say or believe such rubbish. If Bill Gates crapped in a bowl, someone like would be posting:

      "This crap really is quite good"
      "Anyone else noticing this?"

    3. Re:Better results than Google? by jesser · · Score: 2, Funny

      I agree, MSN Search's results are better. My site ranks higher in MSN Search than it does in Google for the searches I tried.

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    4. Re:Better results than Google? by CableModemSniper · · Score: 3, Funny

      Ah, but do they have the same algorhyme?

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    5. Re:Better results than Google? by BrokenHalo · · Score: 2, Funny

      Are you multiplying by two, or are you counting in pairs?

    6. Re:Better results than Google? by LearnToSpell · · Score: 4, Funny

      Searching for Firefox, Google wins 17mil to 1.2mil, but the news portion gives much more recent news than google.

      I've never quite understood the importance of that. How is that a "win?" Did you get to the 1.2 millionth result and say "goddamn, I need more pages!" ?

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  3. search results vs google by Mickey+Jameson · · Score: 5, Funny

    msn search: "bill gates sucks" - 608 matches
    google: "bill gates sucks" - 2,460 matches

    Not really shocking, I guess.

  4. Re:But it still can't find by Sebastian+Jansson · · Score: 2, Funny

    It seams like it can

  5. Well... by xbrownx · · Score: 5, Funny

    The first result for "linux" is an actual page devoted to Linux this time.

    That's progress, right?

  6. Hang on a minute! by zenmojodaddy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Three Borg stories in a row? Has Slashdot been assimilated?

    Flee! Flee for your life! (Unless they're brought Jeri Ryan with them.)

  7. i cracked the server and stole the code by flacco · · Score: 2, Funny
    here is the source code for msn search:

    response.sendRedirect( "http://www.google.com/search?q=" + query )
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  8. Re:[tt]:Encarta by worst_name_ever · · Score: 4, Funny
    Microsoft still hopes that people will buy the Encarta software for additional tools not included in the search engine, such as a guide that helps children finish their homework.

    Man, I sure wish I'd had Microsoft Shut Up And Study, Cut Your Hair, Get A Job 2005 when I was a kid!

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  9. Billy come lately.... by gosand · · Score: 1, Funny
    Can't see what this would possibly give over Google or other great search engines. What possible benefit could Microsoft give to this that is not already there? Why bother reinventing the wheel, except for the purpose of desktop domination?

    You can't win if you don't play.
    A better question would be: Why is Microsoft working on a "desktop search tool"? Yahoo, I can can see, but Microsoft? They produce the damn OS, which has a search built into it!!! Maybe they are going to have an animated cat this time. Yeah, that will work. Ooooh - how about an opossum? It can go to sleep on the desktop when you aren't searching! That would be cute. Or how about a Penguin... nah, scratch that.

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  10. Re:[tt]:Encarta by iamthemoog · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...such as a guide that helps children finish their homework.

    You mean Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V ?

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  11. Re:[tt]:Encarta by BigDogCH · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know about the clutter, but the searching works great! It found exactly what I was looking for! http://beta.search.msn.com/results.aspx?FORM=MSNH& srch_type=0&q=google

  12. Re:Doesn't correct my spelling by ThousandStars · · Score: 4, Funny
    How can I find what I'm looking for if I don't know how it's spelt?

    You can't.

    Before Google, no one knew definitively how to spell anything; it's only recently, since the advent of the Internet, that spelling has been standardized. Fortunately, this makes information exchange much, much easier than during the dark days before 1991.

  13. uilt by microsoft... by drew · · Score: 2, Funny

    the first-ever search engine built from the ground up by Microsoft

    is this a feature or a warning?

    i'm not a particularly avid microsoft basher and i have nothing against using their software when it's the best tool for the job. still, i have to say that based on my experience, pretty much all of their good software was acquired from other sources. anything that they wrote themselves from the ground up (or have significantly re-written since acquiring it) tends to be, well, less than stellar.

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  14. What they'd actually be saying... by PsiPsiStar · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know what the fuck is about MS that drives people to say or believe such rubbish. If Bill Gates crapped in a bowl, someone like would be posting:

    Well, this crap stinks, but it takes too much time to configure my own.

    Well, I don't really like this crap, but MS makes the best bowls and I really need a bowl for my salad so I guess I'll just have to take the bundle.

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