MSN listened to their customers this time. They have added a feature to allow webmasters to specify that MSN Search should use the description from their page instead of using Open Directory Project (ODP) description. From the invention of the tag, seems like MSN would like others to follow.
Google and other search engines have an […]

AOL Search generated the best conversion rate at business-to-consumer e-commerce sites (6.17 percent), followed by MSN (6.03 percent), Yahoo! (4.07 percent) and Google (3.83 percent), according to WebsideStory Index which involve both organic and paid search.
The statistics feature techno-graphic and e-commerce trends culled from the millions of users that visit web sites using the company’s […]

MSN will soon be launching MSN Book Search, scanning and digitizing content from books, academic materials and other print resources. MSN will join Open Content Alliance and plan to launch an initial beta of MSN Book Search next year.
MSN will first make available books that are in the public domain and is working with the […]

A Washington state judge ruled today that Microsoft’s former employee, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee can immediately begin working for Google.
Back in July, Microsoft sued Google and Dr. Lee right after they hire Dr. Lee as an employee for several projects in their China R&D center.
After listening to evidence at a two-day hearing last week and […]

Jeremy reported that MSNBot was pulling his RSS feed roughly every 10 minutes.
Eytan Seidman, MSN Search Program Manager, admitted that they have been a bit more zealous in their crawling than they would have liked and were going to fix that.
MSNBot does have instructions you can use to tell it to slow down, something put […]