Rand, recently elected moderator at Cre8asite, had the opportunity to interview the MSN Web Search Team and publish the dialog. He asks questions on (1) The Creation of MSN Search, (2) The Level of Community Input, (3) MSN Search & Hardware, (4) MSN's Crawling Process, (5) The "Corpus Size" of the index (5 billion +), (6) Competitive Challenges, (7) Quality Testing & Spam Fighting, (8) What its like to Work at MSN Search and the (9) People Behind MSN Search, other (10) "Non-Search Technologies" and finally (11) Future Developments at MSN.
Rand posted threads on this topic both at Cre8asite Forums and SEO Chat Forums.