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Why the Buzz Over MSN Search Beta?

Feb 4, 2004 11:38PM PST

By Matt Hicks, eWEEK

Search engine message boards and Weblogs are aflutter with news of a new MSN Search beta, but officials at Microsoft Corp.'s Internet division say the beta test is nothing new.
MSN began a beta test of its Web search site early in the fall and has targeted less than 4 percent of MSN Search users to receive the test site, an MSN spokeswoman said on Tuesday. The beta focuses on tweaks to the relevancy ranking of results and on minor changes in the site's user interface but does not include a new algorithmic search engine, the spokeswoman said.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1514531,00.asp

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