Msn is finally re-doing their search engine. Their new one has Web; News; Images and Desktop Search modes. And it\'s searching is as effective as googles search engine. It is only in a \"beta\" mode right now but you can still try it. It\'s at least worth a try. You can find it by going to beta.search.msn.com

Try it out. What do you think.

Hmmm....I think I\'ll still use Google and Altavista

I will still use google to probably but it\'s still interesting. (And worth a shot)

My brother and I ran a quick experiment using searches on Googe and MSN search Beta. We ran 10 searches using the same text for both engines, looking for specific data for our search. For example we searched for \"Electric Sheep\" with the intention of finding a reference to \"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep\" by Phillip K. Dick. We then noted the position of the first hit which contained the reference we were looking for. For the most part both engines produced good results. Google performed only marginnally better, but using a larger sample size I suspect the difference would be statistically insignificant.

Results:
Yeilded desired result on first hit:
Google:8 out of 10 times
Msn Search Beta: 7 out of ten times.

Yeilded hit in better position than other engine:
Google: 2 out of 10
Msn Search Beta: 1 out of 10

\"SCIENCE!\" -Bill Nye, the science guy

thanks the_dreamer36. I guess I\'ll stick with google!

Someone ought to do the same test on all of the popular search engines: Google, AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, etc.

I want a search engine that:

1. Can search japanese sites effectively (and with use of the japanese IME) [Google does this]

2. Will stop bringing up porn when I\'m not looking for it!

3. Would have a special type of search that is updated quite often..maybe once a day? When you\'re looking for mp3s online, they can disappear quickly.

4. Has an extensive image-only search.

I see Microsoft is trying to take over the search engine industry too, now.

[quote]Originally posted by HollowTorment
I want a search engine that:

1. Can search japanese sites effectively (and with use of the japanese IME) [Google does this]

2. Will stop bringing up porn when I\'m not looking for it![/quote]

Google is one of the few search engines which doesn\'t. If you look for \"anime\" on any other search engines, be prepared for LOTS of Hentai.

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I see Microsoft is trying to take over the search engine industry too, now.