The meat of MSN Search has got to be the web search engine and, looking at the numbers, it clearly has some work to do to catch up with other search engines .

Crucially though, there are already some things that Microsoft seems to be doing better than others.

Take the MSN Images Search, for example.

As everyone knows by now, the new MSN Search Engine has been launched in a beta format. The Microsoft owned search engine has generated much interest and discussion among the general search using public and the search engine optimization (SEO) community.