MSN search which has been in beta testing for a while is live now in the main MSN homepage, www.msn.com

MSN introduced a beta version of its MSN Search service, providing browsers with more specific answers to their questions and more control over their search experience. This has dramatically reduced the time needed to find relevant information and eliminating the need to sift through thousands of links. The innovative features in MSN Search with Beta version provided an enhanced search experience by providing relevant answers to direct questions.
The following features and benefits of MSN Beta version:
• The MSN Search engine provides vast index of information increasing the browser chances of finding the information he wants.
• MSN Search engine aim to give the most up-to-date information minimizing frustrating dead links.
• MSN Search enables to search for specific information using search tabs such as web, news and images.
• MSN Search help users to sample music at the first click and a second click let them purchase and download it.
• Users can ask the search engine a direct question and get a specific answer without wasting time. Direct answers are provided in a number of categories, including definitions, facts, calculations, conversions and solutions to equations.
• MSN search help browsers to get content specific searching.
MSN Search has a vision to empower people globally through information, software and services that help them find, discover and experience what they want online but the beta version of MSN Search still leaves plenty of room for improvement. After relying for years on licensed search technology from Yahoo, earlier this year the software giant began building its own search algorithm and now boasts more than five billion pages indexed and updated regularly .A database almost comparable to Google's and Yahoo's. But it is not size that matters but the features associated with a good search engine and Microsoft wanted to prove itself. Therefore MSN removed the beta-wrap from its proprietary search engine and now show self-generated results. When Yahoo stopped using Google generated results, MSN stopped showing them as well. At the same time, a new spider named MSNbot was making its presence known. Like Google, MSN's spider finds new sites by following links directed to those sites. MSNbot is active all the time. MSN revisits sites very frequently. The introduction of an MSN search engine makes the business world of search a lot more interesting and opens the door for other smaller firms such as Lycos and Ask Jeeves to gain an upper hand over Google. MSN is changing the business of search, it will help improve on the science of it by innovation rather than invention.