First of all, thanks for your valuable feedback via the website and around the blogosphere. I read the feedback coming in from the site as a part of my job. Thankfully we’re past the performance hiccup of day 1 – the initial beta instability made for...

We launched the beta just over a week ago and there’s been a lot of discussion about what we’ve been doing. Reviews of the beta: WebProNews notes that the beta feedback has been mixed. Mike Hall loves the fact that we can help him with his algebra homework...

Now that we have a beta, people are starting to pay attention to whether their sites are in our index. The two most common questions we get are (1) why did you not crawl my site, and (2) you crawled page X, but its not in your index why? Let’s take these...

Taking a cue from IE team blog and from Robert Scoble’s Corporate Weblog Manifesto , allow me to lay out some basic principles and aspirations for the MSN Search blog: Honest and Respectful. We will tell the truth and stay the high road. ‘nuff said. Useful...

As you may have heard, some screenshots from an internal pre-release build of MSN's desktop search product were recently posted on the Neowin site. While we're flattered by the attention and interest, this was an unauthorized disclosure. As many of you...

As mentioned in a previous post on this blog, we recently received our first few MSN Bombs. One of these was the phrase “ more evil than satan ”, which brought up both Google and Microsoft in the top 10 results. A number of you sent us feedback on this...

As you can imagine it’s been busy here. In the 2 days, we’ve served millions of page views and queries, rolled out a couple of system updates (note the improved performance) and yet I was still able to go see The Incredibles last night (it was great!...

Several people have asked how the system performs a "Near Me" search for food bank near Seattle, WA so I thought it would be a good idea to explain how this is done here on the blog. As web pages are rolled into the index, the code looks for strings of...

As you would imagine, the launch of a new MSN Search Beta brought lots of conspiracy theories out into the open, and between the alleged flights of black helicopters, I thought I would give you guys some of the facts. We have the first set of reported...

In the process of making our new MSN Search beta broadly available we experienced some technical difficulties that caused the beta service to function improperly or be unavailable for some users for periods of time. We're working through these issues...

On behalf of the MSN Search team I'm very pleased to announce that we've begun the worldwide rollout of our new algorithmic search service Beta release. I invite you to check it out at http://beta.search.msn.com and send us feedback via the "help us improve...

As you all know we have decided to join the fray and we have been listening to what you've had to say about our TechPreview . We've decided to start our own blog so that we can keep you all up-to-date on what's happening with our product, our team and...