Seems like http://search.msn.com is still using the same old results. I had made a mistake in assuming that it was a preview of the new MSN search. For a preview of that, head on over to http://techpreview.search.msn.com/
As you might have heard, http://search.msn.com gives you a preview of the new MSN Search Engine (though I don't think it is the official launch). I've been using it a lot over the last 2-3 days and I'll get to writing a review as soon as I find the time (hint:I like it ..mostly). But MSN Search seems to be doing a lot of other things right too. For example,letting webmasters control crawl rates. You can read about it here http://www.firstlistings.com/news/microsoft-msnbot.php
When my friend Aarthi logged into MSN last morning, she got a huge shock. Apart from her normal friends, she saw a whole bunch of new friends - all of them from other countries talking a foreign language (we think it is Chinese) that she didn't understand. Things got even more hilarious when one of them initiated a conversation with her - needless to say, communicating with someone over chat when both of you speak totally different languages is a bit *difficult*.
When she logged back in later, she found that the problem was fixed - except that the one chap she chatted with is still on her friends list. If someone can translate what was said in that chat conversation, we would be thankful.
Here are the screenshots
