Summary: Cool hacks for MsnSearch

Using Firefox:
At the bottom of this blog post#b13i01 is a *select-text-and-search *"bookmarklet" that opens a quick form that enables you do that beta "adjustment thing" to the popularity-freshness-exactness preferences when doing a MSN search.

In IE the bookmarklet may only work as a link (because of a size limitation)-- but the same feature is incorporated into the IE powercons toolbox .

Argos
Argos is a (open source, Java) search engine API that includes support for MsnSearch. See http://argos.dev.java.net/