I was actually surprised that I was invited to the Searchification event MSN is throwing tomorrow because I haven’t been much of a Live Search supporter over the last year or so. As someone who was involved in the early stages of the MSN project (even before the original Search Champs) I ended up being very disappointed in the project because IMO, the product should be much better at this stage in the game.
My initial feeling about tomorrow’s event is that it’s going to be an attempt to “shine shit.” We’re going to see a bunch of new bells and whistles that are going to be bolted onto the top of a platform that just doesn’t work very well. (In terms of algorithmic relevance). I’m hoping that I’m wrong and I’m going to be blown away, but I just don’t think that’s realistic.
Regardless, one of the qualities I do admire about the MSN team is their ability to take hard, constructive criticism. I’m sure we’re going to get a decent amount of time to let the questions fly, so I’m curious what questions you would ask if you were attending? I have a couple issues I’m looking forward to venting about, but I’d love to add a few more.
Fell free to post your questions in the comments, and I’ll try and post the answers they give me when I get back.
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The UK results are starting to get better. IMO they have been hand editing popular serps recently. If not then they have improved something.
They also still struggle with 301s.
How about — when will you buy Yahoo & Ask and create a viable competitor to Google?
Greg, don’t pull the punches. Just ask them when they’re going to get their shit together so we can forget how much of a joke they currently are.
*** Do you hear laughing, MSN? That’s all the webmasters. ***
Those are pretty much the same questions everyone hear is asking. Although, I have to say, what I’ve seen so far is pretty awesome. The new Live Maps is incredible. I’ll post more a little later.
Anything interesting from the event?
I think the main problem of live.com is that is just a bad quality copy of google. Nothing new so, why should I change to live? They either bring some new stuff (at least a diferent layout!) or they will get nothing.