As you perhaps already know, Microsoft launched a beta version of its search engine called MSN search. Their Program Managers launched a blog at the same time:

As you all know we have decided to join the fray and we have been listening to what you’ve had to say about our TechPreview. We’ve decided to start our own blog so that we can keep you all up-to-date on what’s happening with our product, our team and our industry.

Keep watching this space for updates.

I played a bit with this search engine and I was quite impressed by the quality of the responses. Worth a try! It is great to see that Microsoft is positively developping its communication strategy, the posts seem to be quite open and transparent, and they are also talking about problems (avaibility, etc.). Interesting. Their blogroll also mentions the blogs of their….direct competitors (Google, Yahoo, etc.). Again, interesting!

PS: the now famous query with the word “the” in MSN search is returning 2.6 billion pages indexed by the Microsoft search engine, in comparison with the more than 8 billion pages indexed by Google.