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If you have not heard, Microsoft is developing their own search engine and has tentatively announced a late 3rd quarter release.
They have made the alpha version available for testing at: http://techpreview.search.msn.com/ Notice on the front page they "ask for feedback". I'm not sure if they will listen, but this is your one change to communicate with MSN prior to the release of the new engine. Trust me, they have heard from me several times. So far I'm not overly impressed, but I probably should not expect too much of an alpha release. Test the alpha and tell these guys what you think -- good and bad. |
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pne.. make sure you provide MSN with feedback.
But, remember... don't tell them it's great just because your rankings are currently great. Your rankings could disappear in the beta or production version... lol, but with some truth to it. |
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I've seen the msn bot hit my site several times over the past week or two, but am NOT getting many relevant results from any of the searches I entered.
the only time I saw our site in their results was when I queried against our company name.
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Way too green to bother giving feedback now, IMO. Don't know what they are using for an algo but the results were so sorry azz it's not funny. My search for "weight loss" brought all of 15 results, most of which weren't relevant.
I think part of what keeps Google on top is their team obviously uses the Internet. It's not just about outspending the other guy but figuring out what people need before they know they need it. Kathryn
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I don't mean to be negative, but I am really surprised at the number of post I have seen from people calling the alpha search "good".
I've tried very hard to analyze the alpha results in an unbiased way and I just cannot come up with that rating??? |
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I'm with you JB. I'd give it an F- at present.
Kathryn
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Yeah, you're right. In spite of the above post I think they're way off the mark.
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I've just got to like a search engine that puts me at the top of the listings, but I am still not very impressed overall. Still, I am used to the alpha versions of equipment from my R&D people, so if it works at all it's a good start. The site is there, it produces results on search, so at least the designers remembered it should be a search engine. You've just not worked with enough software designers!
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I can't believe it got moved out of beta... or is alpha a downgrade? ....
Yeah, I've done some testing. On one of my searches, for example... Pages from one domain came up in 16 of the top 30 results !! Not very promising so far |
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The terminology refers to early test versions of software - alpha versions precede beta versions, just as alpha precedes beta in the alphabet. Alpha versions are generally restricted to in-house testing so generally by the time the public sees a version it is at least beta, as is the case here. After the beta version comes "release candidates", as in RC1, RC2, etc., as we are seeing with Windows XP Service Pack 2 (beta -> RC1 -> the current RC2). Quote:
It's pretty clear that the new MSN Search is being refined, tweaked, and improved on an ongoing basis. It's still far from perfect but I'm impressed with how much improvement it's shown in a short time.
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From the microsoft.public.msn.search newsgroup:
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Yeah, I was being a little facetious about the apha-beta thing.
But, yes I too have seen the msnbot a lot more active in the past week or so, so hopefully some good things to come. I'd love nothing more than to see msn really step up Nice find on the msn FAQ. Atleast they're aware |
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