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December 2004 - Posts

MSN Search's Wiki

Posted Wednesday, December 22, 2004 12:39 PM by msnsearch
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 be Read More...
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Now showing: http://www.deskbarshortcuts.com

Posted Friday, December 17, 2004 7:19 PM by msnsearch
Pablo has cooked up a shiny new site to share, try out, and submit deskbar shortcuts to! Most impressive is the desktop shortcut to submit a desktop shortcut. :-) Assuming that you have the deskbar, create this shortcut @ds,http://www.deskbarshortcuts.com/index.php?q=$w Read More...
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MSN Desktop Search Beta Feedback Roundup

Posted Wednesday, December 15, 2004 9:20 PM by msnsearch
Monday was incredible! We are very excited about all of the feedback we received from you blog posts, comments, discussion groups, and through online feedback via our website. Scoble posted two solid round ups of the word on the street. Thanks to everyone Read More...
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SES Party Tonight

Posted Wednesday, December 15, 2004 11:35 AM by msnsearch
If you're at SES , please join us tonight (Wednesday December 15th) for cocktails and food from 5:30pm-9:00pm. Come by the MSN Search booth for party information and directions. (For those who need transportation, it will provided from the Hyatt Regency Read More...
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Announcing MSN Desktop Search

Posted Monday, December 13, 2004 1:15 PM by msnsearch
Today we officially announced the Beta release of MSN Toolbar Suite with Desktop Search. We are excited to hear what you think and to see how Desktop Search gets used. Check it out at http://beta.toolbar.msn.com when you have a chance and send us feedback Read More...
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MSN Teleconference on Monday

Posted Friday, December 10, 2004 4:50 PM by msnsearch
A press release announcing an MSN conference call has just hit the wires and we wanted to invite all of you to listen in. Yusuf Medhi , MSN VP, will be hosting the listen-in call. We’d love it if you told the blogosphere what you think of Monday’s news. Read More...
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Visit us at SES

Posted Friday, December 10, 2004 3:41 PM by msnsearch
Next week myself and a couple of others are going to be at SES in Chicago. We’ll be doing demos of the Beta , fielding questions and listening to what the attendees have to say. Stop by, say ‘Hi’, and get a t-shirt (we’re right by the entrance). On Tuesday Read More...
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How do you spell Levenshtein?

Posted Monday, December 06, 2004 4:08 PM by msnsearch
Doing a good job of helping Search users to correct misspelled queries is super important for two main reasons: a) 5 billion crawled docs and a bleeding edge ranking algorithm can’t do much if the query isn’t spelled right and b) more than 10% of all Read More...
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Search Beta Extensions

Posted Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:18 PM by msnsearch
We’ve found quite a few people have added on extensions to the beta. It’s great to see more people playing with the new engine. Here’s a tool from DEVPPL that can be used to evaluate your rank on the Beta . Martin created an MSN Search Beta desktop widget Read More...
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