MSN Netherlands was established in April of 1999 and currently has over 150,000 users every day. The portal is broken down into four specialist areas; MSN-hotmail, MSN-chatbox communities, MSN-shopping and MSN-search finder. In the search finder section the Scoot content is delivered via a quick-link facility where the Scoot database of over 600,000 businesses and services is made available to MSN users.
This agreement with MSN further develops our usage in the Netherlands, building on our existing alliance with Lycos Bertelsmann Netherlands, Startpagina and Intermediair (VNU) to bring the Scoot service to thousands more Dutch internet users whilst providing incremental qualified referrals and transactions to Scoot sellers. We anticipate that additional complementary alliances in the Netherlands and Belgium will be announced in due course. Commented Mark de Smedt, COO Scoot Europe, in a statement to the press.
Our strategy for the new portal MSN.NL is to provide users with the best starting point for their personalised internet experience. Working with companies like Scoot, we’ve brought together the very best content on the web and delivered it to the user in the fastest and most efficient manner possible. Our objective is to make the internet a natural part of everybody’s life and MSN.NL, with our partners, really does this. said Joost Nienhuis, Manager Consumer Group Netherlands.
