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NEW YORK Microsoft’s MSN, which has been playing catch-up in the red-hot search realm, today debuted a beta version of its search service.
Available at beta.search.msn.com, the search engine features an index of more than 5 billion Web documents. In what appeared to be a pre-emptive move of sorts, Google vp of engineering Bill Coughran wrote on the search behemoth’s blog yesterday said that its index has nearly doubled to more than 8 billion pages.
Some features of the MSN search product include the ability to answer users’ questions directly through results from Microsoft’s Encarta encyclopedia and a localization function that lets consumers receive results tailored to a geographic area.
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