New MSN Homepage offers search, news, local and social networking – all in one place.
Microsoft today began rolling out its new MSN homepage, but not everyone will be getting it at once: the update will trickle out over the next few weeks to the site’s 100 million US customers. The software giant is touting the new version as “its most significant homepage redesign in over a decade.”
It comes with a new MSN butterfly logo (which complements the Bing logo), a larger Bing search box and tighter integration with the search engine, local information from a new feature dubbed MSN Local Edition, as well as the addition of three social network streams: the Windows Live “What’s New” feed of course, Facebook, and Twitter.
Here is what Microsoft points out as the most important changes:
Bing, Bing, and more Bing. We’ve seen double-digit increases in Bing search queries coming from the new homepage.
People wanted even more Bing, so we:
- Increased the prominence of the Bing search box to make it easy for you to search from the MSN homepage.
- Added a new TrendWatch feature to highlight the day’s top movers on Twitter.
- Increased editorial programming of search-related content, including videos and images.
- Increased the prominence of Popular Searches, where our editorial team highlights the most interesting and topical searches of the day.
- And, we’re currently testing a Search History feature so you can more easily find information you typically search for.
Here’s a preview of the new msn and you can read all about it on the msn blog!
Source: ars technica
