MSN Search is Live... Sort Of

Microsoft said they would launch their search engine before the end of the year, and they have. Well, they kinda have... The beta of their search engine seems to be off and on. I personally have received several error messages that say "service is temporarily unavailable," and for the search "college football" got only 1 result. But every once and a while I saw a bunch of them.

Needless to say, this doesn't seem to be the way to launch it. In fact, there are some reports surfacing that MSN may have been crawling Google to beef up the index. There's some speculation that the technical problems may be related to that issue.

Oh, and they launched a search blog.