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[edited by: aaaaa at 6:22 pm (utc) on Jan. 6, 2003]
Thats some major competition for Google - reduces the need to download the toolbar.
Love it!
If you do a search on Google for "realnames" you will see several hundred articles on the controversy.
Apparently, Microsoft wanted to have those who mistakenly typed keyword search terms in their browser's address bar to be forwarded as if they typed them into MSN.COM,
When results are calculated as to which search services provide the most traffic eg. Google,Yahoo etc....
Msn's share will be abnormally inflated.
Actually it just made controversy in Denmark when the official web-meter-meassure started to count the "hijacked" traffic onto MSN.dk and they hit #1 instantly.
The largest portal Jubii jumped ship and wont be a part of the official numbers anymore.
LOL: All I got was a blank page with a errors on page notice below!
if you - for example - put "google" ADDRESS bar you will go to the Msn Search site as if you went there and placed Google in the "Search Bar"
[auto.search.msn.com...]
However - if you put "google.co" , "google.c" etc.,
You will go to the error page - it is assumed that you mistyped the url by leaving OFF "m" or "om" etc. for "com"
However - just putting in a WORD - I.E. will act as Realnames used to do.
[auto.search.msn.com...]
There was a recent report release in December 2002 by StatMarket indicating:
Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL Account for More Than 90 Percent of Search Referrals to Shopping Web Sites.
Google was first with a referral percentage of 27.16 percent to shopping Web sites, followed by Yahoo (25.92), MSN (24.11) and AOL NetFind (15.60).
Last year Msn had (15.41).
[edited by: aaaaa at 7:24 pm (utc) on Jan. 7, 2003]
It is NOW the only MAJOR service that has NO connection to Google search.
Since Yahoo is now involved with Inktomi - Will MSN STILL use Inktomi - or will it possibly navigate to Google as a secondary search if Yahoo starts to use Inktomi as it's Web Search.
Will MSN continue to Use Overture as sponsered links or will it use Adwords.
Msn has powerful "advanced search" features - that have gone relatively unnoticed because after putting MSN into
the address bar - one has to then click on the "Search" directory to gain access to the subdomain allowing for the "advanced search" features:
[quote]
Advanced Search Options
Tip: You do not need to specify all the options.
Change how your search words are interpreted help Find: all the wordsany of the wordswords in titlethe exact phraseboolean phraselinks to URL
Enable stemming: (e.g., find "movies" if your search word is "movie")
Change how your results are displayed help
Show one result per domain:
Sort equally relevant results by: defaultdate descendingdepth ascendingtitle ascending
Restrict your results to those of a particular origin help
Region: anyAfricaCentral AmericaAustralasiaEuropeMediterraneanMiddle EastNorth AmericaSouth AmericaSoutheast Asia
Language: allChinese (Simplified)Chinese (Traditional)DanishDutchEnglishFinnishFrenchGermanItalianJapaneseKoreanNorwegianPortugueseSpanishSwedish
Domain: (e.g.:com, nasa.gov)
Document directory depth: any12345
Restrict your results to those that contain particular kinds of files or links help
Results must contain:
images audio
video mp3 audio
ActiveX VBScript
Shockwave Acrobat
JavaScript Java applets
file extension:
These features rival "Fast" and "Google"
;)
is now one of the only opportunities to accomplish this free.
It does seem to work - I have been using it for several months.
However, they only allow one url belonging to the same website per day.
(however, they are programmed to make exceptions, ie:
geocities.com/ sites
