MSN trying a different SERP Options

[bwelford]

I was somewhat surprised to see a different referral in my traffic logs this morning. Someone was searching on MSN Search for 'ten commandments of communication'. They were served up a page with 6 thumbnails of web pages, one of which was a sponsored site and the remainder regular 'organic' choices. You can currently check it out here:
http://sea.search.msn.co.uk/preview.aspx?&...f+communication

I find this very intriguing. What do you think?

[folex]

Morning Bwelford,

I to see this on a daily basis, it first shows in text form, 3 sponsored links and the top ten sites and then shows 3 sponsored images and 3 organic images.

It is a different search page, URL: sea.search.msn.co.uk. I was wondering how people were finding that page, and not just searching from msn.co.uk.

I also have a better position with the sea.search??

F.

[travis]

Bwelford,

Answers are either provided by the questions

(a) Are you a priest ?

( Do you look like Moses when you put a beard on ?

© Have you parted any liquid mass above 1.4 billion Gigaliters recently ?

© Have you knowingly, or otherwise, in the last five years of your life, climbed the mountain of Babel and claimed knowledge from above in stone tablet format ?

Am I close ?

[bwelford]

I wouldn't want to put myself in jeopardy by getting into that. I've usually found it's best not to mess with folk with long beards.

[rustybrick]

I do have an entry regarding the "http://sea.search.msn.com/" domain name here, but that relates to viewing MSN when it used the Inktomi results.