MSN Search Engine Launch December 2004
500558
MSN Search Engine Launch December 2004  MSN Search Launch December '04? Wouldn't it be a kick, if they stick to effective algorithms and the slick look they're offering in the October tech preview incarnation! That version has me very happy with the rankings of my own sites and those of clients ...
718178
MSN Spaces Blog Service Launches  What better day to announce a new blogging service than the day when we all learned that "blog" was the most popular word for an online dictionary. Was 2004 the year of the blog? If it was, MSN has found a great way to end it ...
607155
LONDON - Google is taking the fight straight to MSN after launching a beta application that allows users to search the web and their computer files direct from their desktops.
111914
Microsoft Corp.âs proprietary new search engine is scheduled to go live today in a beta version, at beta.search.msn.com. Like its rival, Google.
31538
Seattle - Software giant Microsoft is hoping to repel a challenge from Internet rivals Google and Yahoo by launching its own search engine on Thursday, according to reports on Wednesday in the American technology press.
342161
Microsoft quietly launched its new blogging service, MSN Spaces, earlier this week. The âquietâ launch has already attracted more than 250,000 users to the new service, still in beta.
422394
Search headlines from around the web, December 29, 2004.
123383
Search headlines from around the web, December 28, 2004.
442415
After months of speculation and two 'preview' releases, Microsoft has taken the wraps off of its new MSN search engine, the first major competitor to join the big leagues of web search in nearly a year.
320329
MSN Beta Search Engine Somewhat Launched  It's finally happened, MSN has launched their new beta test of the autonomous MSN Search - their own search engine. No longer is MSN dependent upon Looksmart or Inktomi and other partners (wasn't Direct Hit one of them in the past?) to produce search results ...
182783
The Seattle Times article: MSN search engine has foot in door, takes a close look at how a search box in MSN Messenger 7.0 might reveal clues about MSN&#39;s &quot;broader strategy in the search business.
721739
SEATTLE -- Microsoft Corp. plans to officially launch its updated and renamed Internet search engine today, the latest step in a massive effort to make headway against market leaders Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc.
576135
Microsoft Corp. last week released a preview version of its new Internet search engine. It will be available in its final form early next year.
97938
Coinciding with the preview of Microsoft's new MSN Search, Google has announced its search index has nearly doubled to a massive 8 billion documents. The company says users will now find more results on obscure topics that previously returned just a handful of Web pages. The new index places Google's search scope far beyond its rivals, but as Google V.P. of Engineering Bill Coughran notes, "The real test is how well we do in finding what you want from within those pages. We'll keep improving that too."
751015
MSN Closes Search Engine Technology Preview  Microsoft's MSN has closed down the preview/beta page of MSN Search Engine Technology ResearchBuzz reports.   Trying to access it now gets you this page which includes the text "Once we are ready, we will release another preview of our new algorithmic search engine." I'm glad ...
642216
In the past decade, searching the Web has grown from an academic experiment to a multibillion-dollar business. Microsoft (MSFT ) has not been a player, being content to outsource its MSN Search service to rival Yahoo!
216725
Tomorrow, Microsoft finally releases the beta version of its proprietary search engine. For over a year, webmasters and SEOs have seen evidence of MSNbot spidering their sites as MSN-Search gathered information and compiled its database.