The Search Engine Watch blog reported that a second MSN Search Tech Preview was online briefly today, and now it is gone. I tried the link to MSN Tech Preview and got a "connection was refused" error in my browser.
Gary Price noted (in the blog entry) not too many changes except that the number of pages jumped over the last time. Since he did not list how many and the site is back down again, not clear on how many that might be -- should be a ton of 'em you would think.
Gary also said, "Still no advanced interface to try on the US side. A UK version of the service provided a number of interesting refinement tools, such as filtering by filetype, date, a numeric range feature and even some relevancy sliders or equalizers."
Clustering of same-domain results was seen with a green button next to them reading "see more results from ...". That is a good sign to see.
Nacho, a moderator at Search Engine Forums had these observations:
* Keyword-in-domain continues being strong, but not as much as Round 1.
* Cache is as fresh as your grocery store around the corner.
* Improved navigation and nicer looks.
* The index seems to have been growing nicely.
* link:www.domain.com is working well too.
* Big authority websites carry weight in ranking. Seems like mom & pop will continue to struggle.
* On page factors and content weigh in heavily.
* Results for other languages are not coming up well (I tried Spanish).
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