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Solve a Puzzle and Get a Start.com Treat

June 04, 2005, 08:58 AM by Bing | 17 Comments
Do you want to see the latest aggregator from Start.com? They launched a preview of their latest aggregator last night. In addition to having a slick new look, the site has search results integration, stock and weather modules, and  a search history. The URL to the new aggregator can be found after you solve a puzzle at http://www.start.com/3 (don't worry MSN Search's Instant Answers are available to help). Have fun  playing with the new site.

Brady Forrest, MSN Search PM

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Ari

Posted On June 04, 2005, 02:44 PM
This new interface is pretty cool (I think better than the previous two), but it seems to me that the key missing feature of all of your RSS interfaces is the fact that none of them remember which stories you've seen before and which are new. I use Bloglines because it does exactly this. Makes reading the news like reading email.

Taking this one step further, though, it seems that some feeds make more sense to handle as I have described while others make more sense to handle in your fashion. For example, a weather feed might as well just always show the latest weather, and likewise with the various "____-a-day" feed (word-a-day, comic-a-day, etc.).

anonymous

Posted On June 04, 2005, 04:41 PM
It took only 15 seconds of trying to answer the question(s) before deciding not to waste any more time. It's great to see things like this fail quickly. In search of stupidity continues...

Danny

Posted On June 04, 2005, 04:53 PM
It looks very promising, and the bits that I could figure out seemed to work nicely. Unfortunately that wasn't very much - the Ajax overload is very distracting. Remember the marquee tag..?

rYno

Posted On June 04, 2005, 06:43 PM
for those who simply can't figure it out:
http://www.start.com/myw3b


I like how it's showing the diversity of search techniques too - most people don't understand 90% of the true functionality of the search.

Jeff

Posted On June 05, 2005, 12:20 AM
Yeah....that page works great. What a waste of time. Here's the error after hitting the button "did i get it"



Server Error in '/' Application.
The resource cannot be found.
Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly.

Requested Url: /3/

Karim Bakhtiar

Posted On June 05, 2005, 06:26 AM
The puzzle is annoying. If you want to showcase features, it would be far better for you to create an optional tour of screendumps.

The acid test of your aggregator shouldn't be 'is this better than MyYahoo', but 'is this better than Bloglines, MyYahoo and whatever Google will come up with'.

Justin

Posted On June 05, 2005, 01:14 PM
You guys suck. Why do you need to load your new features with all this marketing BS?

start.com is promising, I'm not going to use MSN search because it's crap. Deal with it and let me work the way I want to.

doomsday hoopla

Posted On June 05, 2005, 01:22 PM
Isn't it like asking "hey Bill Gates! whats your name"

WTF

Posted On June 05, 2005, 03:26 PM
WTF is this puzzle crap?

dries

Posted On June 06, 2005, 01:13 AM
adding feeds always gives me errors, it's a shame

Martin

Posted On June 08, 2005, 07:34 AM
Not much milk of human kindness on the Net, eh?

The test questions may be a bit of a pain, but your efforts deserve a little more appreciation than most of your comment writers.

Keep plugging away!

Paul Miller

Posted On June 08, 2005, 10:24 PM
Hey Brady you should ask scoble to add the MSN Search Weblog to his blogroll.

Kiran C

Posted On June 14, 2005, 02:27 PM
Looks great. I like the simple design of site.

Personally, I have been spending lot of time, designing my own website (aggregation of indian news sites) very similiar to this site. What a coincidence!!

I like the feature of storing all my favourites in once place. Granted there are 100+ sites out offering this feature, but none are from a reliable source plus, you have to pay them.

Kiran C

Posted On June 14, 2005, 02:28 PM
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