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11/12/2004 8:33 PM
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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!). We’ve had over 1000 pieces of feedback sent to us, in addition to what we’ve seen in WebmasterWorld, the Search Engine Watch Forums, our newsgroup, and on blogs. The top things that we’ve heard so far are:
UI suggestions & ideas – Thanks, we are paying attention to these and will evaluate them.
Developer API requests – We plan on releasing something next year, as soon as we can.
News Integration - There have been a lot of requests to integrate Newsbot with the Beta.
Availability – Our system updates should help this area, but this is a Beta product and we are only using a small portion of our server farm. We will be increasing the number of machines over time and soon we will start to take traffic from our live site.
Relevance – We have gotten a lot of feedback about relevance (over half our feedback) and we are actively reviewing them. As previously mentioned, we are using the feedback that we are receiving from you to get better.

Keep the feedback coming; we're listening.

 --brady

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  • Alberto A-P
    11/12/2004 10:48 PM
    I just don't get the point of Microsoft launching this blog. I mean, if you want feedback, already have the feedback link. I guess this is just a marketing strategy. Microsoft, after years of being serious want to look cool, right? That's what sells now, being cool. I mean, Google or Mozilla are doing great, and they look cool, so we must. You'd do better by making safe software and not charging lotta money for buggy programs... that would make you better. Launching a blog will make you cooler, but not better. If, at least, it had been your own idea...
  • stefan demetz
    11/13/2004 4:13 AM
    Many people I forwarded the beta search URL complained that non english pages are not indexed as well as google ... am sure you will sort that out
  • Brian Turner
    11/13/2004 8:28 AM
    Glad to see you've actually been checking out the SEW forums. :)

    How often do MSN search staff actually read material on Search Engine Watch, though? Is it simply a case of looking at a key thread at a key time? Simply because it's nice to see the SE and SEO industries interract.

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    11/15/2004 2:46 AM
    nice comment. keep the work

  • Anonymous
    11/15/2004 10:05 AM
    I am liking the beta MSN search engine results because they focus a lot on page content and I think this is a good way to achieve relevance. One thing that I think should be improved though, is what concerns the use of text that is hidden to the user's eyes.

    I've seen some manipulated results in your new engine, through the use of keyword stuffing in text which can't be seen by the visitors because it's the same colour or almost the same as the background. I think this should be penalized, as well as any <noscript> text. These are manipulating techniques that have already been spotted by major search engines and they get penalized in order to keep results out of manipulation techniques.

    Also, keywords that appear closely together reveal unnatural language and should also be spotted and penalized IMO.
  • phpBB Star Free Forums
    11/15/2004 8:48 PM
    What blog software does this thing run?
  • Brian Turner
    11/16/2004 8:43 AM
    Whoops - your relvancy took a step backwards.
  • Matt
    11/19/2004 4:40 AM
    Who cares if they're just doing this to "be cool." It's working for me. People like to flame Microsoft just because they're Microsoft.

    Good job for reaching out with a more personal touch I say.
  • search engines
    11/19/2004 4:34 PM
    I think this should be penalized, as well as any <noscript> text. These are manipulating techniques that have already been spotted by major search engines and they get penalized in order to keep results out of manipulation techniques.
  • web hosting
    11/19/2004 4:35 PM
    It's working for me. People like to flame Microsoft just because they're Microsoft.
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