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I am just adding some parts of it.
Last week, Microsoft identified the object of its latest obsession:
Google, the No. 1 Internet search page. (Google, you may recall, is
preparing for an initial stock offering with an estimated value of $25
billion. Nobody bats around numbers like that without attracting
Microsoft's attention.)
For years, Microsoft's own Web search page, MSN Search, has finished a
distant third place in the search-engine popularity wars (behind
Google and Yahoo). The company's new plan is apparently to remake MSN
Search in Google's image.
The Googlification of MSN will occur soon. The first, a
cosmetic makeover, is now complete and ready for your inspection at
www.search.msn.com. The new look consists of an empty white screen
that loads blissfully quickly, even over dial-up connections, and an
empty, neatly centered text box where you're supposed to type in what
you're looking for. The search page is ad-free and, except for the MSN
logo, even devoid of graphics. (On July 4, however, MSN added a
waving-flag graphic, an imitation of the way Google's witty artists
dress up its own logo on holidays.) In short, MSN Search couldn't look
more like Google if you photocopied it.
You can try out Microsoft's extremely early version of this new search
algorithm at techpreview.search.msn.com, but don't get your hopes up.
Microsoft emphasizes that the preview doesn't search very much of the
Web, and isn't intended to compete with Google or anyone else.
Instead, the point is to collect feedback from "Webmasters and search
enthusiasts."
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