Overture - working perefct on the smaller partners

[Sarah Britton]

Did anybody notice- that our listings have been appearing perfectly all through out the last 4 days on the smaller search engines to which overture distributes the search results and are not appearing on the bigger ones like MSN- At least for me that holds true!
So probably the clicks we received in the last couple of days are from these smaller ones and we missed out on the bigger ones-
Why this difference of functioning?

Thoughts?

[seth_wilde]

I'm not seeing any problems with MSN. MSN only uses overture for selected searches anyway (something like the top 50k queries I believe)

[Sarah Britton]

In the Sponsored sites section typically where you see the top three listings of Overture- the premium listings- In that section our listing is not featured but on SE like Altavista we are being.
So am definitly facing the problem. The smaller search engines are showing the overture back end results but the bigger ones are not especially for the premium listings.

[WebStart]

MSN does not always use Overture's listings. I am not sure exactly what their formula is but it seems to combine (for paid listings in the top 3-4, when they do use such paid listings there): Overture (at times); Looksmart, and human editor choices, and some other paid function unique to MSN for the very top position.

In any event, the top 3 Overture bidded keywords will not always show up. I have found it depends on the product and the keywords involved as to whether Overture results are shown. I also suspect it depends on how pricey the keywords are. In other words, a 60 cent keyword might show up but a 10 cent one not.

[lostincyberspace]

What's strange is that the numbers i record from the previous day are then adjusted upwards. Like overture's accounting is wrong.

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