Live Search

Infinitely better than Google's feedback system (send them an email and they send you an auto-response promising that eventually they'll probably read it)

As reported in the MSN search blog, MSN have launched a Wiki to support their general attack on search markets, not least web and desktop search. Named the MSN searchfeedback Wiki, it lists major areas of intended discussion as Web...

Wow...you guys are sure humble...that is a good thing that you actually are accepting feed back!

I love the blog you set up (although I can not set up one with MSN because of online "errors") and hope you continue to solicite feed back from your users. God bless!

MSN has whipped up a Wiki for their search engine; see their announcement about it at http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2004/12/22/330001.aspx. The Wiki itself is available at http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.MsnSearchFeedback. It is not well-populated yet, but...

Wiki Wiki, thats Hawaiian :)

Please hurry and put MSN beta search live!

I'm looking forward to reading MSN's Wiki. I'm very happy with the MSN Beta results and hope they continue to improve.

Hi, I really like the new search engine. It's fast and easy to use. And I really like the way you can adjust the search to more weight on certain factors. I'm hoping you will keep developing this because I believe it places more power in the user's hands. For example, right now someone using Google is at the mercy of their algorithm. But with the new slider tools the user is given a greater amount of control. I would think that over time you can study how users adjust these sliders (if you can encourage them to use them) and then make the default setting for MSN search to match the settings that the majority of users prefer based on your data.

I also like the fact that users have some control over thier results but what's the chances MSN users will use this feature.

Just a guest, I think most of the users that use the MSN search will be using it by default. Not by choice.

This is an excellent idea and I hope it is MSN's policy to provide this when they are a HUGE success. The Beta results look very promising. I wish they would release and shake things up in search.

Any idea when will the search get out of beta stage?

I just read the comment about adjusting the rating, and a thought popped up in my head:

Can I somehow reverse the rating? I'd just love to see the results of a product search where I don't find a single well linked review/advertising/shop page but only lonely small private pages with real opinions about this product.

you see, finding a large well advertised and linked page is not hard on the internet. It is really tough to find real end user stuff, like comments written in a forum about something, weblogs with personal comments about it, stuff from real people - is there a way to find these with your search engine?

Sam

I like the results too... When is it going online?

Hello, Love the MSN DeskBar, can we have this application GPO Enabled? and as much as I loath Lotus Notes, can we have Notes 5.X and above search capabilities, we use Domino @ Work.

Glad to see this. So far MSN is beating all the other SEs in their relations with the users! Good job guys and gals!

A wiki is a neat idea.

Strange, when I search for the quote "excellent idea and I hope it is MSN's policy to provide this when they are a HUGE success. The Beta results look very promising" I would expect to find this page where I got the quote from.

But I didn't - are blog comment pages not being searched?

Sam

» MSN Search embraces wikis as a customer communication channel @ Stephan Spencer's Scatterings

They must have just changed their algorithm.... Some searches have degraded from their high quality they were on saturday....

naturalsearchblog » MSN Search embraces wikis as a customer communication channel

Your search has degraded over the weekend. I saw a major plus of your search engine go away. That was that you guys used to determine phrase ordering in addition to keywords in the phrase. For example, for no fax payday loans, the top results where with keyphrases in that order. Now you guys are discounting what users are searching on and looking fo "no" and "fax" ... anywhere on the page. This is very google-like and will not want people to switch.

When are you guys going to live with this thing? I'm loving the results (page 1 - yeah baby!) but need them to get in front of users...

Anyway keep working the beta and get it up soon - we need a serious contender to the Google.

It looks like when I search in regular MSN that the results now look the same as the Beta. Is this permanent now?...Has the SE come out of Beta.

http://blogs.msdn.com/robert_hensing/archive/2004/07/28/199610.aspx

We started the blog to be able to talk to you, our users, and it has been a great success. We have decided to create the MSN Search wiki to add a way for you to talk to us (in addition to your blogs , Webmaster World & our Newsgroup ). We will