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MSN search beta builds momentum
News Microsoft's MSN is slowly turning up the dial on its Web search beta, sending more and more visitors home-baked results over results from partner Yahoo. While the lion's share of MSN search results come from Yahoo technology, the Internet portal is...
[January 17, 2005, 12:15]
MSN Search beta
Talkback I just made (as far as I'm aware), the FIRST EVER MSN UK SEARCH (BETA) MYCROFT PLUGIN. You can download it here: http://www.orangemapped.co.uk/msn/ And I'm quite happy about it.
[December 21, 2004, 9:38]
MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search review
Reviews MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search is primarily a query tool accessible from a multitude of Windows components, including the Taskbar, Internet Explorer, Windows Explorer, Outlook and Outlook Express.
[June 9, 2005, 13:50]
MSN Search beta review
Reviews Although still technically in beta, the new MSN Search made its debut on 11 November, 2004, after having for years relied on licensed search technology from Yahoo. The beta version of MSN Search offers tighter integration with other Microsoft...
[November 12, 2004, 10:45]
MSN search launched
News As expected, MSN has taken its Web search technology out of the laboratory, and placed it on MSN's newly redesigned home page in 25 countries. Two and a half years in the making, MSN Search will now be the focal point of the updated, lighter-weight...
[February 1, 2005, 10:50]
Overture, MSN extend search pact
News Overture will continue to provide search services to Microsoft's MSN through 2004, the companies said on Monday. The new deal, an extension of earlier agreements between the two companies, also calls for Overture to provide search services for...
[October 1, 2002, 10:55]
MSN Desktop Search review
Reviews Like Copernic Desktop Search MSN smartly inserts a query box in the Windows Taskbar, allowing you to run local searches by simply typing a word or phrase within the window. Like Yahoo Desktop Search, MSN Desktop Search also adds a query toolbar to...
[March 23, 2005, 7:55]
MSN Search beta released
News The site is accessible at beta.search.msn.com. MSN Search Beta has more bells and whistles than previous versions. Still, Justin Osmer, product manager of MSN Search, said, "While it's not final, it's a significant step to getting us back in the game.
[November 11, 2004, 7:47]
Revamped MSN search goes live
News The revamped MSN Search remains a front end for technology provided by Yahoo, offering mainly a facelift aimed to make it look more like Google. The new MSN Search features fewer clearly marked sponsored ads.
[July 1, 2004, 9:20]
Windows XP Hacks: Out-Google Google With MSN Desktop Search
White Papers MSN Desktop Search does a far better job of finding email and files on the computer because it hooks directly into Windows, Outlook, Outlook Express, and Microsoft Office and lets one search in ways one can't with the Google Desktop.
[October 10, 2007, 1:00]
MSN Search beta released
Talkback I just did a couple of image searches in comparisson with Google, MSN did not do as good. Still a way to go MS, and you can bet as soon as they [MS] get comfortable the adverts will start to appear -- thats when people will go elsewhere.
[November 11, 2004, 21:27]
MSN search beta has access issues
Talkback Ballmer said "we will catch up, we will surpass" Sorry sunshine but if you can't even make it work after an eighteen month development cycle and a zillion dollars in your back pocket then you've got no hope.pathetic
[November 12, 2004, 13:08]
Google and MSN disagree on future of search
Talkback I hope MSN proves to be right. When I ask a reference librarian for help, my search begins anonymously and ends anonymously: the professional librarian keeps no record of me as an individual. The only way Google can read your mind is if it knows...
[February 28, 2006, 21:41]
MSN and eBay forge closer links
News The expanded alliance would allow Microsoft's MSN customers to receive direct links to eBay for items related to their search queries from the MSN home page and its different sections. EBay is consistently one of the top five search queries on MSN...
[July 11, 2003, 14:15]
Google and MSN disagree on future of search
News The major search companies have expressed varying ideas on how Web searching will evolve over the next few years, with MSN claiming that there will be significant changes in the user interface of search engines and Google contending that changes...
[February 27, 2006, 16:20]
Microsoft's desktop search tool arrives
News Microsoft's MSN has unveiled desktop-search technology, entering a hotly contested race to dominate information access on the PC. It also lets them navigate the Web with MSN's proprietary search technology, released last month, from points within...
[December 14, 2004, 7:45]
Windows Live Search about to go live
News Windows Live Search page, which uses the same behind-the-scenes technology as MSN Search but will eventually become the company's sole search offering. In the future there will be one search experience — when we come out of beta (with Windows Live...
[March 8, 2006, 14:55]
How do you pronounce pggggggh?
Talkback Live Search, MSN Toolbar, Google Desktop pgggggh! Do I want to do the same test with Windows Live or MSN Toolbar? I actually tried Microsoft's Search version 4. I actually tried to get it to do a desktop search for the contents of a file I knew...
[November 12, 2008, 7:22]
UK misses out on Microsoft phishing protection
News Microsoft has launched a beta version of its anti-phishing filter for its MSN search toolbar. As well as the Microsoft Phishing Filter beta, the MSN Search Toolbar has also gained a Games add-in that will give one-click access to online games...
[August 31, 2005, 17:10]
MSN gets on search bandwagon
News Web portal MSN is testing a new search service that touts faster, tidier results, in what is the latest development in a fast-moving contest to help people find what they're looking for online. The Microsoft-owned division launched a test site for...
[February 12, 2003, 8:14]
