MSN is aLive! and kicking. With the recent blog post on msnsearch blog, about the creation of tools for webmasters, MSN is indeed going into the track on the competition in terms of search engine industry. Few points mentioned on the blog

Initially we’ll support these scenarios:

* Troubleshooting tools to ensure MSNBot is effectively crawling and indexing your site
* Sitemap creation, submission and ping tools
* Statistics about your website
* Consolidation of content submission resources
* New content and community resources

This will help webmaster a lot in terms of optimization of their own site on MSN search engine. An application to test out this tools for beta stage is required if you want to have it first hand.

Link: operator was also pointed out together with the tools from bringing it back to the system seo and webmasters analysis. On my point, this tools should had been implemented when they launch the live search but who knows they could be better than other search engines in terms of webmaster tools.