MSN to launch Blog/RSS Search Tomorrow ?

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Originally uploaded by benbarren.

There are varying reports on this virtual watercooler gossip about an MSN RSS Search Engine that has been beta'd at start.com sub-link recently. Question first before the cut'n'paste : If the Supermodels of the 90's like Turlington, Moss, Campbell and then Klum et al wouldn't get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day, if you add interest + stock options, what price would Scoble or any A-List Blogger (esp those not supporting larger businesses where blogging is a promotional benefit) get out of bed for ? I wonder what if his base "Seattle is cheap to live in" salary is worth more than what he could get on the free market. (Using a NPV scenario analysis based on length of employment : >12 months, <12>

"MSN has been busy this week crawling all the syndication feeds it can find. It looks like Microsoft is getting ready to announce feed search for MSN Search on Monday morning. The move is not too surprising as we have seen MSN dabble in RSS search with the small Start.com research project in public for a few months now."

"Are you curious what MSN has been up to?

Check your server logs for IP addresses 207.68.146.41 and 207.68.146.47 to see the initial probe and 207.68.146.53 for the deeper revisit. 207.68.146.47 - [21/Jul/2005:00:15:05 +0000] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 37 "-" "msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)" 207.68.146.41 - [21/Jul/2005:00:25:26 +0000] "GET /blog/index.atom HTTP/1.0" 200 45153 "-" "msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)" 207.68.146.41 - [21/Jul/2005:01:04:33 +0000] "GET /blog/index.xml HTTP/1.0" 200 35352 "-" "msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)" 207.68.146.53 - [21/Jul/2005:05:39:59 +0000] "GET /blog/2005/06/google_sitemaps.xml HTTP/1.0" 404 230 "- "msnbot/1.0 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)"

Also Yahoo has over 8700 employees which has increased by 8.7% in last quarter.