Commericial - The New MSN

[Mia]

Anyone seen the new MSN commercial? Say one on Fox while watching Hannity and Colmes. It aired at about 8:52PM CST. Short, sweet and too the point.

That is one thing I have not seen from Google yet (or at least I do not think so). I have seen Yahoo commercials, ebay commercials, now MSN, etc.. No Google. Wonder when they will do TV ads, or if they will find that they have to?

[ResaleBroker]

I expected it and heard about it but haven't seen it yet. It sounds like the Microsoft marketing machine is starting up. ;)

[tom22]

I haven't seen any yet, but I'll be keeping my eyes open. I even heard that they would have ads running during the superbowl. Should be interesting to see. :)

[Mia]

Yeah, they could have a commerical with someone doing a "google", oops.. I mean an "msn" search for "wardrobe malfunction"

http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?FORM=MSNH&srch_type=0&q=wardrobe+malfunction

[luisfernandez]

I don't think they need any commercials.

[dfsweb]

I don't think they need any commercials.

Not at the moment, they don't. But, these things can change!

[Las Vegas Homes]

I cant wait for that advertising giant to kick in. I can see it now for this as a commercial.

Buying a home computer- $1500 Dollars

Paying to have someone build you a website - $3000 dollars

Going to google to search for your own website and cant find it and then seeing an MSN commercial for their search engine and finding your website-

PRICELESS

[brainmass]

I cant wait for that advertising giant to kick in. I can see it now for this as a commercial.

Buying a home computer- $1500 Dollars

Paying to have someone build you a website - $3000 dollars

Going to google to search for your own website and cant find it and then seeing an MSN commercial for their search engine and finding your website-

PRICELESS


Good one:)

Go Microsoft!

[dcristo]

Going to google to search for your own website and cant find it and then seeing an MSN commercial for their search engine and finding your website-

PRICELESS

LOL :D Nice one.

[nfzgrld]

It's funny, that's exactly what I thought when I saw the commercial last night on the SciFi channel. Competition is good, and I think Microsoft is probably the only tech company out there with the name recognition AND the money to take google on. I hope MSN search gets real big. Not becasue I'm partial to microsoft, but becasue I'm ranking really well over there.

[tom22]

After seeing the commercial, I think it was very good. Right to the point. The first part of it is a little hard to explain, but what it goes to is a nice, slick image of a search bar (which looks really good, much better than what they're actually using) in the middle of the screen with just a white background. Somewhat google-esque. I like it a lot better than the other current Microsoft commercials. (No butterfly costumes in sight!)

[SportsOutlaw]

Not at the moment, they don't. But, these things can change!

true. no company is so safe that they dont need to advertise. Its real easy to fall asleep while you are at the top and wake up to find yourself in second place.

[Refrozen]

Google probably won't do commercials, they make a point that they have never advertised (which, is bs, adsense has google ads all the time) and all their traffic was WoM.

[Jim bob 9 pants]

After seeing the commercial, I think it was very good. Right to the point. The first part of it is a little hard to explain, but what it goes to is a nice, slick image of a search bar (which looks really good, much better than what they're actually using) in the middle of the screen with just a white background. Somewhat google-esque. I like it a lot better than the other current Microsoft commercials. (No butterfly costumes in sight!)

Anything like this http://search.msn.com/

[tom22]

Nope, not quite. ;)

As I remember, they just had the search bar and the "Search" button, nothing else.

[schlottke]

I'll tell you what, aside from my #2 ranking for : http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=recliner&FORM=QBRE MSN has put together a pretty competitve search.

[daamsie]

Hmm, checked my stats for the week - 1 in 198 referrals came from MSN - that's 0.5%

I wonder why, when Google has managed to crawl and index 159,000 pages compared to the pitiful effort by MSN: 2,831

Google doesn't need to advertise imo. The only thing MSN can do to make a serious difference would be to upgrade their operating system to have search built in.. let me see .. when's that scheduled for?? 2007 if I'm not mistaken ... pffff

[Mia]

(No butterfly costumes in sight!)

True, but that goofy psychedelic (animated) butterfly does fly across the screen and land next the search bar.

[nfzgrld]

It's gets better. The adsense ads on my search engine/directory site have ads for the "New MSN Search." Now that's funny!

[iball73]

I hope they start airing in the UK, MSN is being very good to me at the moment.
Ian

[mopacfan]

msn is just a flash in the pan as far as I'm concerned. I don't think they have what it takes to supplant google as the top SE. It's seems pretty clear that their algo is going to be easy to 'beat' and the spammers will have a field day with them once they are worth the effort. I'm not a die hard google fan, but I am a die hard microsoft detractor.

[Mia]

Odd, I never saw the commercial play during the game. Great game though.. Nice to see the Eagles get trounced on.

[Las Vegas Homes]

Would you not agree though, that in any type business the man with the money makes the rules. I dont see google able to keep up with the marketing giant MS has. Also MSN will offer this product to a larger percentage of the public than google ever could. Google is only known by name as is MS, with both of those factors being equal, IMHO the company that can take that extra step, is the one that will come out on top. Hence MSN should take a larger portion from google in these search engine wars.

[yfs1]

If Google was to get their act together and continuosly improve, you wouldnt see MSN even touch them.

The past is littered with examples where money didn't win out. Now combine money and a better product and you have something.

[mopacfan]

I agree with yfs1 [put and X in that square]

Just becuase ms has money (google does as well) does not mean they can do it better.

[yfs1]

Although the fact that Microsoft has such a great security track record and is every product is welcomed with open arms, mopac might be wrong.

//end sarcasm

Google is hated by webmasters and seo's while Microsoft is hated by the users. Who do you think goes further to deciding who wins out :D

[mopacfan]

There are a lot more users than there are webmasters ;)

[Haichi]

well I have hope for MSN but I still think users will always love google
webmasters are the ones trying to leave

[Mia]

When was the last time you heard someone say "grunge rock?, oh just do a msn for it?"

Usually it is "oh, just do a Google for it."

Seems a bit more common..

[HHI Golf Guy]

msn is just a flash in the pan as far as I'm concerned.

MSN search will be integrated with Longhorn or whatever the next OS/Office integrated bundle is named. I don't think it will go away anytime soon.

[Mia]

But what happens if there is some legal battle claiming that it is illegal to bundle search into the operating system :)

Fat chance on that one ...

[daamsie]

Would you not agree though, that in any type business the man with the money makes the rules. I dont see google able to keep up with the marketing giant MS has. Also MSN will offer this product to a larger percentage of the public than google ever could. Google is only known by name as is MS, with both of those factors being equal, IMHO the company that can take that extra step, is the one that will come out on top. Hence MSN should take a larger portion from google in these search engine wars.

Sure Microsoft has a lot of money, but they also have a LOT of different products to promote and support. Google has a lot of money as well and can focus on spending money being the best search engine.

Btw, I'm a webmaster and I love Google (and really dislike Microsoft)!!

We'll see what this year holds.

[Mia]

It's not like Google only does "search". They are into a lot of different products/services as well.

[daamsie]

But it is their 'core' service.. it's not like that for MSN.

[nfzgrld]

All I know is my traffic is up big time since the last msnbot crawl. MSN is now accounting for about 50% of my traffic. Google, froogle, yahoo together don't send as much as MSN. At least not yet.

[Mia]

I'd have to agree. I have seen the same.

[Chrissicom]

Sure Microsoft has a lot of money, but they also have a LOT of different products to promote and support. Google has a lot of money as well and can focus on spending money being the best search engine.

Btw, I'm a webmaster and I love Google (and really dislike Microsoft)!!

We'll see what this year holds.

Interesting you're using IIS when you dislike MS so much :-P (if the site in your siggy is your site)

About the legal battle if MS implements search into the OS... theres been a legal battle because of Windows Media Player in Europe as well and they had to publish Win XP without WMP but nobody wants to buy that version. That just shows once more that users don't care if their windows comes with WMP or without. Everyone can still use other players and if MSN is the standard search in Windows everyone can still use Google or whatever.

[daamsie]

Interesting you're using IIS when you dislike MS so much :-P (if the site in your siggy is your site)

True, the only reason is that Coldfusion is what I program in and generally it's installed on Win(d|bl)ows servers ;) Mind you, I'd love to swap it over to an Apache server. And don't worry, the coding is done on a Powerbook G4.