maybe this has something to do with a longhorn release? anyways, it would be ok for me, because like most of the people here, i pretty much own msn
hehe If they will make it then it is good for competition and earnings. If not then we are living without it.
we should make a sepparate thread called "who is the biggest MSN owner ?" and each one calculates he's points after his rattings #1 - 10 points #2 - 9 points #3 - 8 points ....... #10 - 1 point and so on jokin
MSN has no drive/plans to improve their search related avenues. They are waiting for Google to get worse. They are also using the search engine marketing world to get their spin out. Just like the phoney Adcenter rep appearances where they ask us for ideas. I have an idea: come up with your own ideas and stop bothering us until you have something worth showing!
LIke I've mentioned in my blog entry, the only people praising them are webmasters (mainly the ones who don't rank in Google) And for all the wrong reason. Just because you and me rank, doesn't make their results any better.
The longhorn release is now called windows vista. I don't believe vista is going to have anything to do with this MSN thing.
well, IE7 has it as its default search engine of course. If you type something in the adress bar it goes to MSN Search then. A bit like Firefox has with Google, but instead of taking you directly to the first Google Result (FF does that), it takes you to the first page of MSN Search... Very handy, lately, I am using this more often then that I use Google...
What could be a better reason? I don't think msn is that bad outside of the real high profit commercial searches
I feel like msn with all of its resources could do so much more to create something cool. Something more complex, where you can personalize your searches more and better than with any other search engine. I feel like they just don't care. All of the promises (including their lates to outdo Google within 6 months) have been smokescreening and publicity stunts.
yeah the definitely seem to be dicking around, they probably plan to do some sort of power move with the new OS , embeded the msn search box everywhere
They totally ignore market segments (like, say, web browsers) until someone else figures out how to make morey off of it. Then they spend a few years putting out half-assed, inferior products while their marketing department convinces the world that they're cutting edge and innovative. Eventually, they throw enough money at the problem and drive the competitor out of business. Or buy the other company. The reason that google has to have them worried is that it somehow managed to get so big that these tactics probably won't work. Of course, integrating MSN search into Vista does sound like the sort of thing they'd use that might make a significant difference. Don't give the customer better service or quality...just set the customer up to use your product every time they turn around, whether they want to or not.
One things for sure is that MSN search will not be going away... as for being more relevant than google, they have a long road ahead of them. Remember that M$ Internet Explorer 1.0 wasn't much to speak of in the beginning and now they have 90% in that market.
Well, unless MS have something truly new and innovative like humanising the process or speech recognition, that actually performs to a reasonable level, then I think Google along with iPod (didn't know that one!) and Sony Playstation and the other MS surpasses will be pretty safe... Oh, and as much as I'd like to claim fame to the speech recognition idea for searching... the guys at google came up with that too, in their original paper "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine"
I have not seen very many search commercials on tv, but then I dont watch much tele because the pc is like my tele. Maybe Msn has a huge advertising campaign on the way.