MSN have got the message loud and clear that it's a bad idea to pre-populate the search box with a search we might want to do - I complained about it the other day as did a lot of others. In their blog they say
Many of you found a pre-loaded search bar intrusive and did not like us trying to predict what you were interested in searching for. Having to actively delete content from the bar was also negatively received.
I think that it's great that they're actively experimenting and trying things out - all the search engines do, and the only way in which they can really experiment is to do it on a live 'out there' audience but I'm still slightly astonished that this idea got beyond first base. Still, all sorted now.
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