SITE: MSN Search Gets New Look; Microsoft Gets New Search Engine, Part 1

Danny Sullivan put Microsoft's new beta search engine through its paces and found it to be a good first effort, but not up to competitive snuff. The good news is that there are some improvements to be made that should be fairly easy to do, like clustering results. The bad news, after a year of effort, Microsoft is still behind even one-man effort Gigablast.