<div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevex/8726721/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://photos6.flickr.com/8726721_98b51acdc5_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a> <br /> <span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevex/8726721/">MSN &quot;sent message&quot; window.</a> <br /> Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/stevex/">stevex</a>. </span> </div> MSN is trying so hard to compete with Google and Yahoo, but I think one of the clear differences between them is that at Google, the techies are calling the shots, while at MSN, it's the marketing folks calling the shots.<br /> <br /> For example, with Google, when I type in a new email address to send a message to, and hit Send, it takes me back to my Inbox and adds the contact to my contacts (with no information but the email address; I can add more later).<br /> <br /> MSN asks me if I want to add the contact (which is an extra step I don't like), but more importantly, crowds the page with so much crap that I can barely make out the part of the page where I'm supposed to supply input.<br /> <br /> This is ridiculous. <br clear="all" />Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:17:08 GMT