nicksimon - 5:38 pm on Jul 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

Well, I agree with the word "pathetic". Sorry, msn guys, I can't put it any other way.

Don't get me wrong, as a publisher I love it while it lasts. I found some of my 5-year-old spam experiments in the top results. Those sites are not even in production, just some junk forgotten in dev I thought was deleted!

I did 10 random searches for the log I have and it is pretty unbiased statistically.

The results are awful! Try for instance [techpreview.search.msn.com...]

and the same query in Y! an G. Couldn't MS get a small test on a small focus group first before releasing it to the public t save embarrassment?

It's amazing how people with huge budgets make mistakes that no geek would make working in his garage on the weekends.