Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Microsoft's Beta at search.msn.com Rump-up

From the Microsoft Blog we have got to know these great news:

"As you know we have been testing the beta of our new search service on an opt-in basis for several months now. From time to time we also route some of the customers from our live search service at search.msn.com through the Beta web site in order to do scalability testing. Next week we intend to begin turning up the dial and direct more of our users to the Beta. You’ll continue to see us doing this on occasion for the forseeable future. As before, the service remains in beta status and we will officially launch it when it’s ready. "

Oshoma Momoh,

General Manager, MSN Search Program Management


This is going to be really great news, especially for those who practice ethical SEO: the new MSN Search Engine returns really relevant results and it doesen't seem to be foolished by aggressive SEO operators like it happens to Google and Yahoo.

As i have said a few weeks ago, when i predicted that something would have started happening very early this year, once again i forecast for the new MSN search engine to come out completely from its beta status by the end of February or beginning of March, if not before. Let's wait and see.

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"Blogs and message forums buzzed this week with the discovery that a pair of simple Google searches permits access to well over 1,000 unprotected surveillance cameras around the world - apparently without their owners' knowledge."

Editor's note: These cams can be found by searching for inurl:"MultiCameraFrame?Mode=" or inurl:"view/index.shtml" on Google.

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