rcjordan - 9:22 pm on Apr 9, 2002 (gmt 0)

>Are we to assume that all the rankings across all referrers are the same?

Speaking for a long-standing, general interest site that ranks pretty consistently across the SE spectrum (except AOL) [webmasterworld.com], MSN can and does out-perform Google. Also, this site receives much of its traffic from "halo" domains and pages (wide and deep content) designed to harvest those secondary or obscure terms.