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I MSN Search'd It!

I was happy to see yesterday that Microsoft at last unveiled its revamped (non-Yahoo) search engine, search.msn.com. From cursory tests, the engine appears to function as well as it should. It knows where to find us, anyway. However, in reading...
February 02, 2005

I was happy to see yesterday that Microsoft at last unveiled its revamped (non-Yahoo) search engine, search.msn.com. From cursory tests, the engine appears to function as well as it should. It knows where to find us, anyway. However, in reading about the finally official engine, I did see one area where the product could stand some improvement -- namely, marketing. Here's a choice quote from a story on C|Net:

"They'll be trying to get people to say "I MSN Search'ed it'," said Danny Sullivan, an industry expert, referring to the commonly mentioned practice of "Googling" something or someone.

Yesssss. Now that's got a nice ring to it.

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