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Yesterday, thanks to judicious leaks from Bill and the Boyz, the media splashed Microsoft to launch MSN Search and today, thanks to Microsoft&#39;s official announcement, it&#39;s Microsoft launches MSN Search.
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For purposes of comparison, many people are sizing up MSN&#39;s new desktop search program and toolbar suite against Google&#39;s previously released desktop search program.
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UPDATED  Microsoft has unveiled a revamped beta version of MSN Search, which utilizes Redmond's own algorithmic search engine. MSN Search previously provided a front end for Yahoo! results, but last February, Microsoft committed considerable resources to develop in-house technology entirely from scratch.
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MSN has delayed by a week the start of its beta for its MSN Messenger 7 instant-messaging client until some time next week. MSN officials had said the company planned to commence the MSN Messenger 7 beta this
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StumbleUpon, one of my favorite web surfing &#038; navigation networks, seems to be experiencing downtime this morning. I&#8217;m not able to surf, submit or suggest using the StumbleUpon toolbar or its web site. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Sometimes in the online world, downtime can equal  major update (thinking YouTube or search engines). I wonder if [...]
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Links to this week's topics from search engine forums across the web: New MSN Search Goes LIVE in Beta - Microsoft To Launch New Search Engine - Google Launches 'Google Advertising Professionals' - Organic vs Paid Traffic ROI? - Making Money With AdWords? - Link Building 101
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p2pnet.net News:- A three-day problem with MSN Messengers had nothing to do with Funner, the newest e-bug to bite Microsoft. &quot;MSN Messenger, Microsoft&#39;s instant message service, is back up and running this
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Times Online tried Microsoft&#39;s new search engine, and it broke. Here&#39;s a selection of reader experiences with the new service.
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NEW YORK When Microsoft released its much-awaited MSN Search to compete with category leader Google in early 2005, it did so with the kind of fanfare expected from its marketing machine: a wide-ranging TV, print, outdoor and online campaign, including Super Bowl spots, with an estimated budget of $150 million. Yet afterwards, Microsoft was left in a familiar position: distantly trailing Google, and even losing ground.
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Microsoft today introduced MSN toolbar Suite. The software will allow users to search the contents of their hard drive, including Microsoft Outlook e-mail, calendar items, contacts and Office documents.
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Microsoft&#39;s MSN has introduced a beta version of its new blogging tool, MSN Spaces, which it expects will eventually be supported by advertising.
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Early Thursday, Microsoft will begin revving its engines squarely in Googleâs direction with the Beta launch of the new MSN Search engine.
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Microsoft&#39;s (Quote, Chart) MSN released the latest version of its homegrown search technology on Thursday (beta.search.msn.com), offering multiple ways to narrow results, including providing local results and natural language search.
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Over the last 24 hours Twitter has been down as much as it's been up. As always this gives us a reason to think about what the world would be like without Twitter and then those of us who are engineers or would-be engineers, start thinking about ways to fix the problem, whatever it is. The Twitter folk say that the recent problems are related to an infrastructure overhaul. Of course I believe them, I take it at face-value. I think the MacWorld Expo outage was about traffic, I don't think last night's Republican debate took Twitter down. Anyway, I'd like to really understand what's going on behind the scenes at Twitter, Inc. They say they're confident the new infrastructure will hold up better, I'd like to understand why. Can we have a meeting, with a few people from the tech community who actively use Twitter and a few people from the company, to be briefed on what's going on. The same way the President briefs Congress when there's some kind of international crisis.  Twitter wouldn't exist without its users. Everyone wants to know what's going on. Let's have some real honest direct communication?
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The MSN Toolbar Suite Beta rounds out Microsoft&#39;s MSN search family with fully indexed searching of local documents and e-mails.
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After months of speculation and two &quot;preview&quot; releases, Microsoft unwraps its new MSN search engine, the first major competitor to join Web search major leagues in nearly a year.
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Microsoft is once again allowing beta testers to jump the velvet ropes surrounding its MSN search engine. Microsoft's Internet search division has opened up a second preview, offering a glimpse into the sweeping changes changes that have been made since phase one of the test was suspended in August.