Comments on: Microsoft Way Ahead Of Google http://blog.v7n.com/2006/11/06/microsoft-way-ahead-of-google/ Tue, 10 Jan 2012 04:40:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Peter Da Vanzo http://blog.v7n.com/2006/11/06/microsoft-way-ahead-of-google/comment-page-1/#comment-2409 Peter Da Vanzo Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:14:35 +0000 http://blog.v7n.com/2006/11/06/microsoft-way-ahead-of-google/#comment-2409 I suspect the reason they appear to be dropping the MSN name is that it may have negative associations (associated with the past) confuses people (associated with chat) and they want to be seen as being part of a new paradigm (Web 2.0). I was part of a Microsoft search evaluation team called SearchChamps a while back. When I was in Redmond, there was a fair amount of discussion around the name of the service - not all at MS were wanting to keep the name MSN. I suspect the reason they appear to be dropping the MSN name is that it may have negative associations (associated with the past) confuses people (associated with chat) and they want to be seen as being part of a new paradigm (Web 2.0).

I was part of a Microsoft search evaluation team called SearchChamps a while back. When I was in Redmond, there was a fair amount of discussion around the name of the service – not all at MS were wanting to keep the name MSN.

]]> By: brandon72 http://blog.v7n.com/2006/11/06/microsoft-way-ahead-of-google/comment-page-1/#comment-2365 brandon72 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 04:09:16 +0000 http://blog.v7n.com/2006/11/06/microsoft-way-ahead-of-google/#comment-2365 I'm very interested to see what MSN / Live Search does in the next year or two. If you keep tabs on the company's media releases and such, it seems they have set their sites pretty high ... like Google high. When a company all but drops their brand name (MSN >> Live), you know they have big aspirations. Nice post Peter. Thanks for that. -Brandon I’m very interested to see what MSN / Live Search does in the next year or two. If you keep tabs on the company’s media releases and such, it seems they have set their sites pretty high … like Google high.

When a company all but drops their brand name (MSN >> Live), you know they have big aspirations.

Nice post Peter. Thanks for that.

-Brandon

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