Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

8 of 535 comments (clear)

  1. 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 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!" ?

      --
      Haida Manga
  2. 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.

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

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

    That's progress, right?

  4. 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!

    --

    In Soviet Rush, today's Tom Sawyer gets high on you.
  5. 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

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

    --

    ___
    It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.