internetheaven - 7:49 am on Oct 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

Don't know if any of these points have been raised yet, long thread, sorry for any repetition:

1. My 400 or so page site returns "Results 1 - 10 of about 1,418 containing site:www.example.co.uk example" when you click the "see more pages" from this site link in results. Once you pass 130 results though it says "sorry there are no more results".

2. I can't get any of the "cached" links to take me anywhere.

3. I must say that I am impressed with algorithm thus far. One particular market I am in is completely spammed out on Google due to the high importance played by inbound links (of which my competitors have bought thousands from off-topic sites e.g. $1000 a year to be on every page of a free javascript resource site). Yes, MSN is still ranking them number 1 but I am number 6 - when on Google I am number 312. My site is more relevant than the majority of the ones above me on Google as they are mostly Adsense doorways or espotting affiliate results pages. Can't see any of that on MSN ... yet ...

For all the big talk comments Bill Gates has made I just can't believe this is all Microsoft has to show for it. A long...long ways to go.

I'm assuming that comments like these are from people who aren't ranking well in MSN? The overall consensus seems to be that MSN are on track, of course they're not there yet but that is why there is a test. At least they are involving US in their search engine and looking for OUR feedback - don't see much of that with Google and Yahoo, many of the errors we point out in here are still errors in their search engines. Good PR move Microsoft, but I'm sure you already knew that ...