The idea of being PUBLIC and openning the doors of communication with the users of MSN search is a BRILLIANT and practical idea.

It is SO-O very important that Search Engine Developers/ Engineers no longer hidE behind a wall of secrecy - so much ALGO and SERPs feedback can be offered by spontanous interaction with the potential users.

MSN has had an enourmous increase in relavancy in the past several months!!!!

For the first time in ages, it is being used to suppliment Google's & Yahoo's defeciencies by professional searchers.

While no search engine can be a panacea - most people are beginning to realize the need to search them all - and Developers/Engineers are realizing the importance of unique ALGOs and SERPs, so that unique results are available for those wishing to get the "Creme de la Creme" of sites. :-)

What is really puzzling is Why did it take BILL so long to realize the need to develop MSN search - it could have been so far advanced if this had been going on years ago...?????????????


BTW:
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=search+engines&FORM=QBHP

doing a query for the term "SEARCH ENGINES" why is there ONLY 9 organic listings on page one SERP????

It took me months to get Scoble to do that - had to pester all the time, well worth it - met all my expectations :)

Funny if you look at the title tags for Google, MSN and Yahoo! none has search in them.

MSN is tipping it's organic hand as when you do a search for search engine the weight of the title tag plays through.

Authoritive anchor text may also be a factor - even looking at the Google results - since I doubt too many people use search engine when linking to the top search engines... though I wonder if they get in trouble like SEOBook did for too many repetitions of the name.

I agree it is a refreshing thing to see SE developers comming forward and commuicating directly to both Webusers and Webmasters. Kudos for this. I do also think that the serps and looking much better also (after last weekends Google Update 'Jagger' I think in some places they are actually looking much muchbetter). In all honestly I think if there is a target for good serps, you should look at Y! as a target.

Isn't it odd that Search.msn.com is defaulting to Spanish on some datacenters 10/24/05




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I am not sure if this the right place to post about "Windows Desktop Search" but i couldnt find any team blog for this. I found one blog related to Windows Desktop Search but the last post in that blog was in August.

I like Windows Desktop Search but i find that Windows Desktop Search is more focused into finding phrases inside a document rather that find the docuemnt by the phrase name itself. For example, i tried searching for "dotnetfx.exe" but what i found were readme adn setup docuemnts taht had references to "dotnetfx.exe" as a text. What i was looking for wasthe actual exe. I alos try "*.exe", *dot*.exe" and ironically there wasnt a single result shown.

Is this is how Windows Desktop Search behaves, if yes then i will switch to something that is smart enough to understand that i am searching for the sctual file and not the filename inside a document