MSN/Live product managers on crack

Just this morning I realized that it’s merely a half year ago that MSN search introduced all sorts of fancy search operators … just to shut down ALL of the advanced link search operators (inluding the link: command) down over night.

Today you at least get a normal search screen with no results,
but I remember that they had a “blank page” as result for WEEKS when you used those “forbidden” operators

I realize products change, and so do operators.

But this product line armageddon – first to talk big about cool new features and then break everything over night just made me think

I remember MSNdude bragging last summer about their “HUGE” infrastructure and all the shit they are able to do with it that Google and Yahoo cannot… LOL

I bet somebody found that the shared dipped some cents, so they sold some search server machines to generate fake-profits …

What’s going on those minds?

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  1. Douglas KarrNo Gravatar Says:

    You mean people really use that?

  2. Marketing Fan Says:

    You don’t think so?

    MSN/live.com has a 30% market share average over all demographics… with > 50% for “old mummies”

    Christoph C. Cemper
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