MSN/Live Search Engine gets new facelift

There is something strangely familiar about the new live.com interface.. and a clear sign that Microsoft are starting to look at Google and see where they can emulate their success.

For me, this is definitely good news.. not enough to make me switch search engines yet.. but encouraging.  

The problem with MSN / Live.com was never really with the interface.  In fact, I’d say that Yahoo has a greater interface problem than any of the others.  The Yahoo home page is still stuck in the late 90′s search engine "portal" concept.  The simplicity of Google’s interface was one of its original attractions.  It seems that Microsoft are finally starting to understand this.

Further improvements to the SERPs (search engine results pages) were announce Back in October by Microsoft, with better snippets, a larger index and improved spam control.  All good things.

It is true the the MSN / Live.com search is getting better and if you look at the search engine market share, MS is gaining albeit slightly.

March 2008 Search Engine Market Share | Nielsen // NetRatings

Yahoo
March: 18.1%
February:17.6%
Change: +0.5

<

Related Posts

1. Recent Changes in Live Search Engine
2. 5 Insights into Live Search SEO
3. How to see country specific search results in MSN/Live Search
4. Live search cashback
5. Microsoft Employees Prefer Google to Live Search
6. Live Search Results Update
7. 5 Ways to Get More SEO Help on Live/MSN Search Results
8. If You Don’t Rank in MSN/ Live Search How Much Traffic Are You Missing Out On?

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 8th, 2008 at 8:53 am. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.