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MSN Search Engine Launches



With this final push we have made more than 40,000 Encarta encyclopedia articles and associated media available for free to MSN Search users, which translates to more than 1.5 million Instant Answers. We also improved and integrated Newsbot, added a button for RSS feeds on the bottom of all applicable search results pages, and increased our MSN Music selection.
We have been doing a ton behind the scenes over the last few weeks as well, tuning performance and working on scaling the system to handle MSN’s volume.

In conjunction with all this, MSN has launched a redesigned MSN.com homepage. The page is streamlined, over 50% faster and showcases the new search functionality. This will give users a great place to start their search experience. Furthermore we’ve added the ability to access MSN Search from the Microsoft.com homepage.

I am proud and excited to announce that MSN Search is now officially launched.

What is most exciting to me is we now have a search platform in place that we can innovate on top of at a rapid pace. Thanks to all of you who provided feedback during the beta and tech previews ­ Keep it coming. The next year is going to be extremely exciting.

Thanks
Christopher Payne
Corporate VP, MSN Search
posted on Monday, January 31, 2005 11:33 PM

Netimperative - MSN Search begins TV campaign

MSN Search begins TV campaign

By Robin Langford

MSN is to embark on a multi-million pound ad campaign to promte its new own-brand search engine, launched yesterday.
For the first time in four years, MSN ads will appear on television, complimented by a large online campaign reaching 21 million users, accounting for more than 30% of the overall spend.
The commercials will feature a search bar that visually mimics unique query terms and showcases how consumers can find anything from the mundane to the obscure, all on MSN Search.

The supporting TV advertising campaign will be aired on a broad range of channels, including Channel 4 and ITV. The first phase will run from 7 February for a number of weeks with a second phase towards the summer.

The MSN-redesign has been launched, and they have followed the big corporate trend of moving away from using tables for layout, and having a site that is poorly coded, uses invalid markup, and isn't standards compliant.

Now as with most of these companies, with technology budgets larger than a small south american countries GDP, they have a site that uses CSS / CSS-P for layout and poorly coded, uses invalid markup, and isn't standards compliant ....