Welcome to the party, MSN!

Thursday, Nov 11, 2004 @ 11:07am

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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