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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. Indexing gone wild by WoodstockJeff · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Given the traffic reported by many PHPBB2 operators as MSNBot endlessly spidered their sites, retrieving the same pages hundreds of times via different session IDs, I wonder how accurate their page counts are going to be on any dynamic-content site.

    We had to modify our sites to remove session IDs when MSNBot comes by to cut the traffic.

  2. Why bother? by terrencefw · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Really... why? Google's search results are good. MSNBot is pulling as many pages from my site as GoogleBot, but only bringing me 2% of the visitors that Google does.

    Google has a number of advantages, like:

    • Repeat the search on USENET, Images and Froogle
    • No heavy graphics
    • Spell checking
    • Indexes and converts PDF and other formats.
    Also, it returned results from the United Kingdom, even though the UK only box wasn't ticked!

    Also, the layout and the sponsored links are a blatant ripoff of Google.

    --
    Like tinyurl, but one letter less! http://qurl.co.uk/
  3. [tt]:Is this REALLY launched this time? by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Insightful
    So, it it REALLY launched this time? Maybe we should ask google?
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c2coff=1&safe=o ff&q=msn+search&spell=1

    Results 1 - 10 of about 19,000,000 for msn search. (0.08 seconds)
    ... as opposed to msn search
    Web Results
    1-10 of 9,429,189 containing msn search (0.15 seconds)
    Twice as long, half the results - nope! Google rulez.

    With Microsoft, who gives a shit? Remember their "big security push"? Nothing came of it. Everyone who has a clue knows you can't just "bolt on" security in a couple of months. It was all about marketing, not product. Just like monkey-boy's "developers, developers, developers" - all hype, no content.

    I've seen a hell of a lot of traffic from msnbot lately.
    I checked the server logs at work yesterday, and for every legit visitor over the last 10 days there were 8 attempts to "hack in" using Winblows security holes (stupid script kiddies - why don't you at least check to see what OS is running before repeatedly trying different methods - oh, right, you're Microsnot Fanbois).

    There's a LOT of msnbots (MicroSoft Nuisance roBOTs) out there.

    Instead of wasting time and resources on a search engine, they should first fix their piece of shit insecure operating system. Or maybe they can use google's search engine to find a patch? Buy a clue?

    What the world needs isn't a Microsoft search engine - it's for Microsoft to clean up their own mess.