New MSN Search is LIVE

We are seeing a rollout of MSN new search

[drdsl2000]

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It looks like it might be tied into their lateset Windows update.

Results look very good so far, Look out Google!

AND THERE WAS THREE

The Dr

[kevinpate]

haven't sat as well in ms beta as we have in the other two. However, given the respective traffic levels, I suppose this means we'll go from X searches a day down to 0.3 searches a day.
Of course, based on X = 40 or less on a consistent basis, abd based on the niche not being commerce related, it ain't nuthin' but a thang.

[2by4]

I don't see any beta search on search.msn.com

Must just have been a test.

[mastervisa]

I don't see any beta results, just same old Y driven stuff. Gives new hope to me though and to the other sites penalized or banned from Y. Beta loves my site!

[TomWaits]

I've seen the beta go live all day here.

[Bondings]

The MSN beta results are changing a lot lately.
My website was ranked #1 for a certain keyword for a few weeks. This morning it was on #2 and when I checked this evening, my website didn't show up in the first 250 results. I hope this will just be temporary, but if the results can change so suddenly, this makes msn beta very unreliable for webmasters. One day you get lots of visitors and another day nothing.
What do you think of this?

[Imaster]

Another issue with MSN beta is that most of the sites in almost all topics have only around 5-10% pages crawled as compared to Google. [I have arrived at this conclusion after checking most of the authorative sites in different industries]

For most of my sites, msnbot has crawled almost all the pages, but only 5% shows up in the beta. Same must hold true for other sites as well, as I believe.

I hope that they release a full version of the beta when they launch next week, if they do.

Edit Reason - Spelling correction

[edited by: Imaster at 9:25 pm (utc) on Jan. 14, 2005]

[Imaster]

The comparision between MSN Beta and Google with the site:domain.com for Yahoo, Cnn, washingtonpost.com, Superpages, among others would shock most with respect to number of pages crawled.

How in the hell is it on par with Google if it doesn't even have 10% of pages crawled for a majority of the sites. I seriously can't believe MSN Beta has over a couple of billion pages indexed.

[edited by: Imaster at 9:36 pm (utc) on Jan. 14, 2005]

[dvduval]

It seems negativity is setting in. :(

I am very excited about seeing a third player among the SEs.
Google: Old tried and true site
MSN: Newer sites, that Google is missing
Yahoo: Somewhere in between

This diversity can only be good for the searcher and the webmaster.

2005 is going to be awesome! :)

[RoySpencer]

Regarding number of pages in the index, beta only has about 2,500 out of about 60,000, while Google "claims" to have them all...but Google's sandbox has them buried deeply in the SERPS, except for obscure search phrases. But I can't WAIT for beta to go live because for 50 important pages, beta has us #1 (or 2), so I anticipate our beta traffic (when fully live) beating Google traffic, even though beta has only 4% of our pages indexed.

[eyezshine]

I can't really tell if it's because of MSN but our traffic has been spiking high for a couple hours and then back down to normal again etc...

It doesn't seem like it's sticking for very long. Just short bursts of traffic here and there.