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Old 02-01-2005, 10:24 PM
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MSN gets official!!! Out of Beta...

Here's what Bill Gates had to say while introducing it -

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February 1, 2005


Greetings,

I would like to introduce you to the new MSN Search service and MSN.com home page.

Based on your feedback, we have designed the new MSN.com home page to be faster, simpler, and more organized. We've also made MSN Search more precise and powerful, so you can quickly find the information you?re looking for.

Our goal at Microsoft is to use the power of software to solve our customers' toughest problems. Searching the Internet today is a challenge, and it is estimated that nearly half of customers' complex questions go unanswered. That's why we're proud of our new MSN Search service, a simple and powerful tool that helps you find the answers you want from sources as diverse as Web pages, images, news headlines, music downloads, and even files on your PC.

Input from millions of our customers - including me - was crucial to our efforts to make MSN Search the best it can be. If you have not already tried it, I encourage you to visit www.msn.com and type in your question. We'd love to hear what you think, and I promise that we will continue to improve MSN based on your feedback.

Sincerely,

Bill Gates

My Opinion :

I love the fact that PulseToday.com is showing #1 for the keyword Marketing Forums (Yipee!!! Do I need any other reason to love that SE! )

They Layout is familiar (like something that starts with G and ends with e)!!

MSN copied the positioning of elements from google!!!

The sponsored links at the top and bottom really screw the browsing experience. They really should decrease on it!

What do you think about it?
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Old 02-02-2005, 11:01 AM
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I'm getting the rank 2 for 'Egor', so that's pretty sweet. Not that it brings me any value, it's still nice to see a bit of search engine traffic now.

Microsoft finally pulling the finger out their a*ses and doing something good? I think so.
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Old 02-02-2005, 11:04 AM
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I just checked my site, they had the meta tags and discription all wrong. hopefully they will send bots to check it out and get it right.
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Old 02-02-2005, 11:13 AM
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I just checked my site, they had the meta tags and discription all wrong. hopefully they will send bots to check it out and get it right.
They are notorious about it... Don't worry, It'll get to you very soon
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Old 02-11-2005, 11:38 AM
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Damn, I'm now officially on top for the keyword "Egor"! I'd even consider shouting ol' Billy a shot of Tequilla right now.
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Old 02-12-2005, 12:56 AM
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Damn, I'm now officially on top for the keyword "Egor"! I'd even consider shouting ol' Billy a shot of Tequilla right now.
Hah! Congrats! Now the next stop is the #1 for Web Design
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Old 03-14-2005, 11:25 AM
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While I am happy that I have really good rankings in MSN, they bring nothing of traffic. I mean just a tiny bit.

If they want to become anything like google their marketing department needs a huge raise.

Otherwise, Google on!
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