When will the new MSN Search Launch?

[fisher318]

Ok, I know the standard SEO professional could care less about MSN from what I've read in other forums, but they seem to bring me a nice percentage of my traffic. So, I am interested to know when they are launching the new search. Does anyone honestly know, or have a source they can point me to so I can find out for myself?

[sfowler]

I don't have a clue, but the spider has been very busy recently.

[clasione]

Havent heard any new news about the MSN search technology release....

Last thing I saw was there sample search of the new stuff - but they recently took it down, guess they just wanted to get some feedback.... Looked like they were far from completion at that time as there spider was gobbling up all pages no matter how many parameters the url had.... That was about 2 or 3 weeks ago....

[daku]

i just hope msn release the search soon and ends google domination. the so called google 'sandbox' is really annoying

[eitemiller]

It's old info, but last I heard was "late this year" for MSN to unviel it's new SE. Personaly, I can't wait. That bot just loves our site.

[sfowler]

It runs wild on my site too. Crawling is not everything, it is indexing that counts. That is where Yahoo is s weak. They crawl quite a lot as well, not as much as MSN, but they drop by to say hello most days.