MSN Search preview resurfaces

eWeek | at | by Mike

The public preview of MSN's upcoming search engine is back, this time with a Web index about five times fatter and reworked relevancy algorithms.

Microsoft's Internet division launched the second preview on Monday for the United States and plans to expand it to a total of 29 markets in 12 languages by Thursday, an MSN official confirmed.

MSN's latest search preview follows a two-month test that went offline in August. The latest preview incorporates feedback from the earlier alpha test as well as expands the index to more than 5 billion Web documents, said Justin Osmer, an MSN product manager, in a statement.