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MSN Search Page Gets a New Look

February 21, 2006

Microsoft has given a new look to its MSN search page to give it a similar look like the other services under its ‘live brand'. A company spokesperson said that this move is in anticipation of MSN Search's imminent name change to ‘Windows Live Search.'

It is expected that Microsoft would formally rebrand the MSN Search page to ‘Windows Live Search' by this June end but the definite time frame is not yet fixed. Microsoft has also been working to improve upon the relevant results that the search engine throws on being searched for an item on its MSN search page. Relevancy refers to how a search engine gives users query results that are of most interest to them highest on the results page.

Windows Live is a personalized home page service that allows users to populate a web page with web-based services and content, such as e-mail, news headlines and other mini-applications, Microsoft calls Gadgets, which provide information from the Web.

Microsoft already rebranded another former MSN Search product, MSN Virtual Earth, with the Windows Live moniker. That service is now called Windows Live Local.

Source: InfoWorld