Welcome to the party, MSN!

Thursday, Nov 11, 2004

This morning Microsoft MSN launched the public beta of their new search engine, touted as having the largest index of any web search engine, at 5 billion pages.

A few hours earlier Google upped their official number of indexed pages to 8 billion, and Microsoft had to hastily reword their press releases.

It seems the folks at Microsoft are a bit miffed.

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