Redesigned MSN Search goes live

In case you didn’t notice, MSN Search has gone different.

So what does it bring us?

The good

Advanced menu

Now with “Advanced” options you can filter your search results not only by domain and language, but also by country. You can filter by country by using the ‘loc:’ modifier with country code, such as “loc:AR”.

But the nicest thing is that you can now filter the search results by freshness, popularity and relevance. Pretty handy when you are searching for news, a popular article or a specific document (research, paper, etc).

Minor updates

1. If you enter a more or less competitive keyphrase, you’ll see “Related searches” on the right. Pretty useful, I guess.

2. A lonely link to “Espanol” was removed. Sure, having search in more languages is good. But why only Espanol and in such a surprising spot? Gone for good.

3. Links from the footer were removed. Nice, less things for distraction. Simplicity is nice, isn’t it, sometimes?

The bad

1. The search field is now in the middle. Which means people will need to shift their reading area to the center of the screen every time they need to type anything. Pretty inconvenient.

2. The vertical search (images, news, etc) choices are now obvious (below the search field). Controversial whether useful or not for those who don’t use them.

3. Still no option to see 100 results at once. Pretty disappointing at times.

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Neat Redesign