MSN Beta Engine Released

Pen Tongue

Dec 15th 2004, 7:26 am

Yesterday I searched on MSN.com and got the beta engine...CHECK THAT, just went there again right now and the new engine appears to be released.

Enjoy!

- Michael

SEbasic

Dec 15th 2004, 7:35 am

I'm seeing the old search still.

Pen Tongue

Dec 15th 2004, 7:37 am

CHECK THAT again. When my co-worker goes to MSN.com he gets the old layout and the old engine.

Maybe it's in my cookies from before....? Anyone else?

For clarity, at msn.com I get the new engine and I get a new layout for MSN.com. My co-worker gets the old layout and the old engine.

- Michael

yfs1

Dec 15th 2004, 7:37 am

Before you get too excited, this is (and has been for some time) limited to small areas throught the world.

Donna has a screenshot on her site. Heres the article:
http://www.seo-scoop.com/month_blogs.cfm?d=1&m=12&y=2004
Heres the actual screenshot:
http://www.seo-scoop.com/images/msnpeek.gif

T0PS3O

Dec 15th 2004, 7:40 am

Common practise. Google does that as well, test new stuff in several areas.

dazzlindonna

Dec 15th 2004, 7:41 am

The info yfs1 refers to is here - http://www.seo-scoop.com/direct_link.cfm?thepost=199

yfs1

Dec 15th 2004, 7:42 am

You're fast donna...I must have added the site to my post the same time you were replying.

Nice scoop anyway.

hex1848

Dec 15th 2004, 8:02 am

I've seen (and reported on seochat) several hits to my sites coming from search.msn.com in keywords that I rank well in on beta and not on the live version. I would agree that this seems to be a limited roll out, but my fingers are crossed that they release it full scale soon!

musiclover

Dec 15th 2004, 3:41 pm

my site has got a top50 ranking on beta search in a major keyword but now where on the real search. So guys when do you think it's goanna fully launch it's new search.

yfs1

Dec 15th 2004, 3:47 pm

I'm not sure how much Top 50 will help you (which really means #45, otherwise you would have said top 40, etc).

I believe they are still aiming for First Quarter 2005

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Blogmaster

Dec 15th 2004, 6:58 pm

Nah, top 50 means nothing - but it indicates that you're doing something right but still have some more work to do ;)

goodgirl

Dec 15th 2004, 9:05 pm

I asked a few guys at the MSN Booth (SES Expo) when they were coming out of beta. They of course said they couldn't really say, but it was really really soon.

dazzlindonna

Dec 15th 2004, 9:14 pm

oh, i like "really really soon". :)

joeychgo

Dec 15th 2004, 9:34 pm

goodgirl

Dec 15th 2004, 9:35 pm

I wanted to stop by there today and ask if it was really soon yet, but didn't have time.

MSN did have the biggest booth.

It is funny, last year they were there. Google was, but nobody at the Google booth all day long. They just had a booth with there name on it. This year MSN is there, they have the biggest booth and about 10 reps there, Google actually had people servicing their booth and was giving stuff away this year.

goodgirl

Dec 15th 2004, 9:38 pm

I talked to them today also - they dont want to commit to a date - they have 5 billion pages indexed - but then said google just increased to 8 billion pages, they have a lil catching up to do now.

They did say early 2005 - What did you think of the show goodgirl?

It was a little bigger then last year exhibit wise. They said it was a bigger show, but I thought there was less people this year. Maybe that is because last year was in smaller areas.

It is good to go to and get to actually talk to people face to face.

joeychgo

Dec 15th 2004, 9:44 pm

I found it to pretty much be a waste of time - the expo anyway - I didnt go to any seminars. But, I got enough T Shirts and a decent lunch - so that balanced out my parking fees :)

Most of the exhibitors that were there really seemed to be more for large companies who dont do any of their own web work, not much there for little guys like me.

goodgirl

Dec 15th 2004, 9:58 pm

melfan

Dec 15th 2004, 10:25 pm

im still seeing the old msn search.

exam

Dec 16th 2004, 1:29 pm

I'm still seeing the old search as well, but they still might be shooting for a Jan 1 release date. :)

chachi

Dec 16th 2004, 1:36 pm

I'll be damned. I just got beta search when I went to search.msn.com. I am in San Fran, will have to check if it is up tonight and tomorrow for me.

Blogmaster

Dec 17th 2004, 10:59 am

I am in San Diego and it is still the old way but seems to have updated

chachi

Dec 17th 2004, 11:20 am

still getting the new results up here in SF today.

And, yes Mike, we know you are in SD, as a matter of fact we know you are in PB, 92109. :)

Blogmaster

Dec 17th 2004, 11:23 am

hhaa... but you didn't know that we just took over Surfing San Diego (http://www.surfingsandiego.com) .com

:D

musiclover

Dec 17th 2004, 3:34 pm

Nah, top 50 means nothing - but it indicates that you're doing something right but still have some more work to do

It's a very new site and yes i've got a lot more work to do. And I want to be #1... :p

daamsie

Dec 18th 2004, 4:52 am

I'd be curious to see if a no.70 listing for 'travel' would get any hits from MSN, as that's what the beta is showing for us at the moment! no.200 gets a couple of hits a day from Google. Only problem with the MSN results is that they've indexed less than a 10th of the pages that Google has managed to find. Same problem goes for Yahoo! though.

arundirect

Dec 18th 2004, 6:54 am

Search for "hi-fiweb" on search.msn.com , we are listed 5th

arundirect

Dec 18th 2004, 6:56 am

search for "Tune the web to your needs" on search.msn.com and we are again listed 5th among 671767 matches

goodgirl

Dec 22nd 2004, 9:45 pm

I finally got the pictures of the booth up.

Front:

http://www.tanyamartin.com/msnfront.jpg

Back:

http://www.tanyamartin.com/msnback.jpg

Refrozen

Dec 22nd 2004, 9:56 pm

I finally got the pictures of the booth up.

Front:

http://www.tanyamartin.com/msnfront.jpg

Back:

http://www.tanyamartin.com/msnback.jpg
Wow those are

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /msnfront.jpg on this server.

Apache/1.3.31 Server at tanyamartin.com Port 80

great images.

:D :D :D :D

goodgirl

Dec 23rd 2004, 9:53 am

Wow those are

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /msnfront.jpg on this server.

Apache/1.3.31 Server at tanyamartin.com Port 80

great images.

:D :D :D :D

Grrrrrr I thought I fixed that.

goodgirl

Dec 23rd 2004, 9:58 am

http://www.tanyamartin.com/msn.html

Better?

T0PS3O

Dec 23rd 2004, 10:36 am

Yes but no 'back' picture...

search for "Tune the web to your needs" on search.msn.com and we are again listed 5th among 671767 matches

Not sure what your point is here...

No suggestions for tune the web to your needs.

Blogmaster

Dec 23rd 2004, 10:53 am

http://www.tanyamartin.com/msn.html

Better?
yeh, but how about the second pic?

goodgirl

Dec 23rd 2004, 11:15 am

yeh, but how about the second pic?

uhm...scroll down :)

daamsie

Dec 23rd 2004, 5:43 pm

scrolling down, the second pic doesn't show. Coming up with one of those nice 'image missing' icons.

Blogmaster

Dec 23rd 2004, 7:19 pm

It's showing at your end GG cause the image is retrieving it from your hard-drive directly instead of your server.

goodgirl

Dec 23rd 2004, 8:23 pm

Geez I must need a break, over 6 years of building websites and I have never had this happen before. :o

It is fixed

goodgirl

Dec 23rd 2004, 8:24 pm

It's showing at your end GG cause the image is retrieving it from your hard-drive directly instead of your server.

Thank you :)