I am proud and excited to announce that MSN Search is now officially launched. With this final push we have made more than 40,000 Encarta encyclopedia articles and associated media available for free to MSN Search users, which translates to more than...

We have posted a new version (02.00.0001.1203) of the Toolbar Suite for download. Some of the fixes and enhancements in the latest version include: Eliminated the virus pop ups and increased performance (more below) Ability to index Outlook items when...

While the My MSN content directory has an amazing diversity of RSS providers, we don’t yet have easy integration with Search RSS feeds. It’s coming, but in the meantime, we’ve created some bookmarklets to easily subscribe to your favorite search terms...

The MSN Portal team had a “little” launch early last week; they added the ability to read RSS (and Atom) feeds on your My MSN page. Users can add an individual blog’s feed or an rss search feed or an MSN Search Results feed. They also launched a site...

Our job is to provide the most relevant and useful results to a user’s search query. Sounds easy. But, unfortunately there’s a powerful financial incentive for a small subset of people to try to manipulate the results so their sites come up to the top...

We’ve gotten reports via email, newsgroups and in our comments about folks getting anti-virus notifications while running MSN Desktop Search. This is caused because we write email & attachments to a temporary directory during the indexing process...

We’ve been experimenting with RSS Search results on our live servers and we’ve been found out by Greg Linden , Gary Price & many others . Good job guys! :-) This is an experimental alpha feature that is still under development. Since this is an experiment...

As you know we have been testing the beta of our new search service on an opt-in basis for several months now. From time to time we also route some of the customers from our live search service at search.msn.com through the Beta web site in order to do...

We’ve packed our bags and sunglasses for the annual CES conference in Vegas . Stop by to visit, ask a question, or see us demo MSN Web Search and the MSN Toolbar Suite Beta with Desktop Search at the Microsoft booth (7145). There will also be folks from...