Is a New MSN Layout The Answer? (MSFT, YHOO, GOOG)

I was looking through my emails this morning and saw the change that has long been on the way… A new MSN is coming. Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has its search pact with Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO). We recently saw Yahoo! move from a very crowded homepage to one that was more centralized, was not as much to scroll down through, and had far few portal entrances on the home page.

MSN is adopting a similar strategy. Will it hurt or help? Time will be the judge. Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has had next to nothing on its default homepage for years, although it now has many sub-sectors and indexes which are full of content destination links.

Here is the new MSN:

Time will tell….