Pablo has cooked up a shiny new site to share, try out, and submit deskbar shortcuts to! Most impressive is the desktop shortcut to submit a desktop shortcut. :-) Assuming that you have the deskbar, create this shortcut @ds,http://www.deskbarshortcuts...

Monday was incredible! We are very excited about all of the feedback we received from you blog posts, comments, discussion groups, and through online feedback via our website. Scoble posted two solid round ups of the word on the street. Thanks to everyone...

If you're at SES , please join us tonight (Wednesday December 15th) for cocktails and food from 5:30pm-9:00pm. Come by the MSN Search booth for party information and directions. (For those who need transportation, it will provided from the Hyatt Regency...

Today we officially announced the Beta release of MSN Toolbar Suite with Desktop Search. We are excited to hear what you think and to see how Desktop Search gets used. Check it out at http://beta.toolbar.msn.com when you have a chance and send us feedback...

A press release announcing an MSN conference call has just hit the wires and we wanted to invite all of you to listen in. Yusuf Medhi , MSN VP, will be hosting the listen-in call. We’d love it if you told the blogosphere what you think of Monday’s news...

Next week myself and a couple of others are going to be at SES in Chicago. We’ll be doing demos of the Beta , fielding questions and listening to what the attendees have to say. Stop by, say ‘Hi’, and get a t-shirt (we’re right by the entrance). On Tuesday...

Doing a good job of helping Search users to correct misspelled queries is super important for two main reasons: a) 5 billion crawled docs and a bleeding edge ranking algorithm can’t do much if the query isn’t spelled right and b) more than 10% of all...

We’ve found quite a few people have added on extensions to the beta. It’s great to see more people playing with the new engine. Here’s a tool from DEVPPL that can be used to evaluate your rank on the Beta . Martin created an MSN Search Beta desktop widget...

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...