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Tuesday, October 05, 2004
More On The MSN Search Preview
I finally got to try out the MSN Search Preview and there are a few things I've noticed:- This site isn't listed. Even thought MSN Search Preview lists sites that mention this blog, it hasn't found this blog yet.
- It says: "The site may be slow at times or you may notice missing or incomplete features; if you notice problems or results that are inappropriate for your search, please tell us what went wrong." So expect features to appear and dissapear.
- You can discuss the site here.
- Microsoft has an answer to Orkut, called 3°.
- The inteface is very simplistic. The large font turns me off. Obviously, we'll be able to show more than 10 results, but I want a smaller, tighter interface.
- I am not the number one result for myself in MSN, but I am in Google. Thus, Google is better. That is my only qualification.
- The fact that the cursor defaults back to the search box on every page, forcing you to click before on the page before you can scroll. That's a deal-breaker to me, seriously.
- posted by Nathan Weinberg @ 10/05/2004 12:50:00 AM
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That is weird. I did "webstractions" and found 1341 results, but when I hit the fifth page -- the result count changed to 2523 (almost doubled) while I was paging thru it.
When I paged back ... the total results went back to 1341 (even after refresh). Some kind of bug in the reporting. But if you remember the last Preview, the total results were not there at that time.
They sure are digging up some stuff I have not come across yet. Finding some, unknown til know, references to my site. Wonderful surprise. ;-)
Heck they even dug up two Blogger Profiles with webstractions in it, some .cgi comments from MovableType blogs, and MSNbot is actually crawling sites with SID numbers in them too (many forum references are showing SID's). I don't know if this is a good thing, or a bad thing. (probably bad on the whole)
Here is a neat trick. There is a "count=10" in the url -- up that to how many results you want to display (less work this way). I upped it to 100 and the results popped right up.
Using the site: command -- I got only 26 pages. But, get this, if I used the site: with my domain, plus the word "webstractions", I got 82 pages listed. Something wrong with the site: command.
The fonts are too small, btw, but I am viewing thru Firefox. A lot of sites are small (probably built for IE). But I do remember the font being rather large in IE before.
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When I paged back ... the total results went back to 1341 (even after refresh). Some kind of bug in the reporting. But if you remember the last Preview, the total results were not there at that time.
They sure are digging up some stuff I have not come across yet. Finding some, unknown til know, references to my site. Wonderful surprise. ;-)
Heck they even dug up two Blogger Profiles with webstractions in it, some .cgi comments from MovableType blogs, and MSNbot is actually crawling sites with SID numbers in them too (many forum references are showing SID's). I don't know if this is a good thing, or a bad thing. (probably bad on the whole)
Here is a neat trick. There is a "count=10" in the url -- up that to how many results you want to display (less work this way). I upped it to 100 and the results popped right up.
Using the site: command -- I got only 26 pages. But, get this, if I used the site: with my domain, plus the word "webstractions", I got 82 pages listed. Something wrong with the site: command.
The fonts are too small, btw, but I am viewing thru Firefox. A lot of sites are small (probably built for IE). But I do remember the font being rather large in IE before.
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