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I mean, come on. When is MSN Suggest coming out? Six months or so?

Maybe I am being harsh, but Scoble got me excited yesterday...

"Remember last Sunday when I said I had seen something that left me speechless? Well, in the videos I filmed (and I filmed more than 1.5 hours worth with nearly the entire team working on the thing that's being shipped into beta on Monday) I am heard saying "that's wicked."

-http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/12/12.html#a8865

A desktop search left you speechless? Maybe a WinFS desktop search would leave me speechless, but something that does pretty much what Google does and only works in IE does not leave me speechless. The GUI is pretty nice, and it has some cool filtering stuff... but it is only really useful if I want to leave that search box on my taskbar or if I switch back to using IE... neither of which I am going to do anytime soon.

What am I missing?

I would love to see MSN do some cool interesting innovative stuff... I want to see Google trying to copy MSN.. then I will be impressed and speechless.

-James