how msn beta ranks and bugs

[helenp]

Trying to understand why the results for my keywords are so diferent from google and yahoo, all of the companies normally on first page including me are no where, I saw that one company has severals, maybe 20-30 diferent domains interlinking, and on the first page 6 of the 9 results are from the same company, on the second page another 4 domains, this is really bad results... where to report these things?
I reported it in comments (comentarios, spanish came up)

And as well trying to figure out how can another one be on good position on 2nd page and one of the keywords I searched for nameofcity + comercial word is only twice on the page, later I started to count the other keyword nameofcity and it is repeated 30 times on the page, as well in the links........ this is bad,

I hope these things is bugs and will be fixed,

[steveb]

They seem to have a very different batch of data today, and it is a large step back from the last major tweak a few days ago. Three quarters of the elementary school spam that was culled out last time is back.

Whatever you guys did, not good. I'd suggest removing the "list multiple copies of the same keyword domain" knob.

[cleanup]

Agree that the results are looking poorer this week.

[northweb]

I find this weeks data much the same as last weeks. Maybe a few of the spammy sites replaced with more relevant pages. What I have noticed are the large domains that spend big doe each on on buying links are no longer.....great!

These sites rule the top 10 in google in highly competitive markets with hundreds of pages. I think msn is evening the playing field out.

looks good msn!

[skipfactor]

Yea, you're right northweb, they're missing an authority knob.

[soapystar]

from where i sit relevancy has improved with the last tweak but thats the only positive..the complete lack of filtering for networks leaving identical domains showing in top ten is quite startling

[Hugene]

I am still amazed to see how contradictive people's posts are, one says its bad, the other good! What does thta mean?

I was just playing with the results and while looking for a north-american city name, with changing the {popl=} {frsh=} {mtch=} options, I got totally spammed results about porn site, and just tons of them. weird

[newwebster]

Authoritive sites are not ranking correctly. I think steveb stated this last week, but I think it has gotton even worse for authority sites this week.

Another note, when searching for site:www.xyz.com on sites that use php session id's, there is a load of duplication of pages going on with different session id's. MSN needs to turn on or turn up the duplication filter here as I am concerned that these sites are getting credited for more pages than what they actually have.

In general I think MSN has a good start, they just need to improve their filtering of pages and improve on the ranking of authoritive pages.