Robert_Charlton - 6:58 am on Jul 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

I've found a couple searches that give an excessive number of results from the same domain.

Keeping in mind that this is a preview, I'd say it still needs lots of work. Everybody's mentioning a need for clustering. This is something that the new Yahoo was also lacking when they first turned it on, but not nearly to this extent. In any event, I assume fixing this is easy.

Right now the algo seems to be really sensitive to page title and hyphenated urls (I assume this is due to link text), and seems to have its PageRank-type thresholds set similarly to Yahoo, which is to say that on the moderately competitive stuff it's easy to spam. I'm seeing top 10 rankings for stuff that doesn't show in the top 100 in Google, but also show in the top 10 for Yahoo. Some of my pages do much better than they deserve.

It seems to have better duplication filtering than Yahoo does. If Tim is reading this thread, that's something Yahoo still needs to work on.

Neither MSN nor Yahoo digs into page content the way Google does (ie, Google finds stuff that's in the page and relevant, but not necessarily featured in the title).

The page is very clean and returning serps very fast, which is great, and I'm hoping the rest is set up to be easily tunable and will get fixed enough to make it interesting.

msndude - Good to have you here, and good finally to see some msn generated serps.