by Dave Ingalls
Internet Marketing Course Blog
April 28, 2005

Here we go! Microsoft has officially launched its proprietary crawler-based search engine – click on the link below to take it for a test drive.

In particular, check out a unique feature of this search engine – the tie-in to Microsoft’s Encarta Online Encyclopedia. Enter the search phrase “population rome italy” (without the quotation marks). Look for the “Answer” entry right after the top 3 sponsored links – you get the exact answer you’re looking for fed to the search engine from the Encarta Online Encyclopedia. Pretty neat!

Try it out for yourself: MSN Search