MSN Search Has Arrived

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday February 1, 2005 @01:29AM 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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Re:Thats good and all, but... by ari_j · 2005-02-01 01:40 · Score: 0, Troll

$ lynx -source http://www.msn.com/ | wc -c
37928
$ lynx -source http://www.google.com/ | wc -c
2058

And that's just the HTML. Google has no waste and does not inundate me with ads until after I've searched, and then only with brief text blurbs that are clearly delineated from the search results. I haven't bothered to check, but I doubt MSN search is any more polite after you search than it is before.
Re:Indexing gone wild by imroy · 2005-02-01 01:58 · Score: 0, Troll

That's a good thing. Session Id's don't belong in URLs and this excercise should have shown you a good reason why.