MSN Thumbnails
Jul 12

MSN Thumbnails

MSN’s Search will now show you a thumbnail of the sites for which it returns hits. (You can tell it to stop, if you like.)

by Deane   July 12, 2003 6:53 AM    |   Follow Gadgetopia on Twitter   |  Tags:  MSN

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by Deane,   July 17, 2003 9:28 AM  

I found in another article that Google tried this once, then pulled it:

" Sometimes, that's how the company realizes that it has a bad idea on its hands. That was the case when it offered broadband customers a thumbnail picture of each Web site with its search results. Of those who got the thumbnails, 5 percent of Google users went to the preferences page and turned off the feature. That's a pretty big thumbs-down, considering that typically only 1 percent or 2 percent of people ever even view the Google preferences page."

http://news.com.com/2100-1008_3-1026321.html

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