Take it easy on ol' KwasiOwusu, he is having a great time with his head way up between Gates' cheeks.
He is talking and pushing and shilling as much as any used car salesman selling a POS, but in this case MS is just trying to play catch-up using a 90% perfect mirror of what Google already provides.
So who is going to switch when they already have Google?
Google took over the leadership position because it was orders of magnitude FAR AHEAD of every other search option, especially the at-the-time standing leader Yahoo. MS is nothing new, just a refonted, outright theft of Google's creation in nearly every way.
The longer time delay of every MSN search is due to the additional repackaging and refonting time that MSN needs after it goes out to fetch Google's results first.
Exactly my point... you don't need to hype a better search on the internet... if its publicly avaiable (even in beta) it draws traffic on its own. MS Search like AOL's search has is and always will be a joke. Every few years they announce "OUR NEW SEARCH ROCKS"... people try it out.. and then go right back to the better products they had already been using.
Kwasi's just ignorant of search technology and the internet in general. Having actually worked 1st hand in search companies, I've watched the trending and industry since 1994. MS Search is just another tired reverse engineer that won't meet the original....
I will admit Google's been resting on its laurels lately in terms of its basic search, (the death knell for every search before them).. but copying what they already have won't take them out... a better search with better relevancy that is light years ahead of them is what will take them out... and MS Search isn't it.