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December 22, 2004, 12:39 PM by Bing | 24 Comments

We started the blog to be able to talk to you, our users, and it has been a great success. We have decided to create the MSN Search wiki to add a way for you to talk to us (in addition to your blogs, Webmaster World & our Newsgroup). We will be paying attention find out what we are doing right and what we are doing wrong. Tell us! The MSN Search wiki is a part of Channel9 so you will need a log-in to edit it (anyone can read it). Special thanks to Jonathan Hardwick for his help with this!

-- Brady Forrest, PM

Comments

Maurits

Posted On December 22, 2004, 03:11 PM

Infinitely better than Google's feedback system (send them an email and they send you an auto-response promising that eventually they'll probably read it)

Hidden Nook

Posted On December 23, 2004, 11:12 PM

Wow...you guys are sure humble...that is a good thing that you actually are accepting feed back!

I love the blog you set up (although I can not set up one with MSN because of online "errors") and hope you continue to solicite feed back from your users. God bless!

Darin

Posted On December 27, 2004, 11:05 PM

Wiki Wiki, thats Hawaiian :)

Please hurry and put MSN beta search live!

Wade

Posted On December 28, 2004, 12:40 PM

I'm looking forward to reading MSN's Wiki. I'm very happy with the MSN Beta results and hope they continue to improve.

David DuVal

Posted On January 01, 2005, 04:35 PM

Hi, I really like the new search engine. It's fast and easy to use. And I really like the way you can adjust the search to more weight on certain factors. I'm hoping you will keep developing this because I believe it places more power in the user's hands. For example, right now someone using Google is at the mercy of their algorithm. But with the new slider tools the user is given a greater amount of control. I would think that over time you can study how users adjust these sliders (if you can encourage them to use them) and then make the default setting for MSN search to match the settings that the majority of users prefer based on your data.

Curt

Posted On January 02, 2005, 01:18 AM

I also like the fact that users have some control over thier results but what's the chances MSN users will use this feature.

Just a guest, I think most of the users that use the MSN search will be using it by default. Not by choice.

Fionn Downhill

Posted On January 02, 2005, 09:56 PM

This is an excellent idea and I hope it is MSN's policy to provide this when they are a HUGE success. The Beta results look very promising. I wish they would release and shake things up in search.

Miika

Posted On January 03, 2005, 05:37 AM

Any idea when will the search get out of beta stage?

Sam

Posted On January 03, 2005, 08:14 AM

I just read the comment about adjusting the rating, and a thought popped up in my head:

Can I somehow reverse the rating? I'd just love to see the results of a product search where I don't find a single well linked review/advertising/shop page but only lonely small private pages with real opinions about this product.

you see, finding a large well advertised and linked page is not hard on the internet. It is really tough to find real end user stuff, like comments written in a forum about something, weblogs with personal comments about it, stuff from real people - is there a way to find these with your search engine?

Sam

Rob

Posted On January 03, 2005, 11:13 AM

I like the results too... When is it going online?

Bill Bacoyiannis

Posted On January 04, 2005, 03:26 PM

Hello, Love the MSN DeskBar, can we have this application GPO Enabled? and as much as I loath Lotus Notes, can we have Notes 5.X and above search capabilities, we use Domino @ Work.

Ottawa

Posted On January 05, 2005, 09:11 AM

Glad to see this. So far MSN is beating all the other SEs in their relations with the users! Good job guys and gals!

John Campbell

Posted On January 05, 2005, 06:01 PM

A wiki is a neat idea.

Sam

Posted On January 06, 2005, 07:20 AM

Strange, when I search for the quote "excellent idea and I hope it is MSN's policy to provide this when they are a HUGE success. The Beta results look very promising" I would expect to find this page where I got the quote from.

But I didn't - are blog comment pages not being searched?

Sam

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Posted On January 09, 2005, 02:21 PM

They must have just changed their algorithm.... Some searches have degraded from their high quality they were on saturday....

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