MSN, Yahoo See Better Future

[Imaster]

A customer experience survey on search engines among over 2,000 users said MSN and Yahoo! were fast catching up on Google.

It also said that improvements in search results meant more users are likely to use MSN and Yahoo! as their primary search tool. The search engines also scored on the "most likely to return to in future" scale. It also found that up to 50 percent of users had opted to use another search engine if they were dissatisfied with their primary search engine.

[techtree.com...]

A very small dataset, but nonetheless useful information.

So Google, Watch out. Get your system in order before its too late.

[Tigrou]

Nice fine Imaster.

Intersting. No longer just our hunches that Google is depreciating in value to users. Have increasing amounts of scientific proof as well.

[webhound]

Very interesting...

Yeah portals like Yahoo and MSN also offer other features and content to make users more inclined to set it as their default homepage. Especially with the junk Google's been serving up for the last 9months.

Good to see some other players aside from G.

[Imaster]

Especially with the junk Google's been serving up for the last 9months.

Good to see some other players aside from G.

More the competition, better for us webmasters.

[pipermark]

When I went to Yahoo and MSN it appeared that to list your site it was 299.00, or you had to purchase some form of advertising, does anyone know of a free registration?

[TrustNo1]

That just shows MSN using INK was working. And now they just screwed that up.

[phantombookman]

Google are still a country mile ahead of everyone in my area - no serious competition at all.

[OptiRex]

pipermark

> does anyone know of a free registration?

A good link will get you in there for free, trying any other method now is virtually a waste of time and effort.

Anyone else with any ideas?

[2by4]

I've been seeing this change in traffic on one sites I do, I started noticing it a few months ago, and it's stayed pretty steady. Google has seriously messed up, their time remaining to stop trying to boost company profits through adword income so they can sell off their shares is growing shorter, this is a very big gamble for them, although maybe the whole idea is just to cash out and take the billions and leave all the suckers with worthless stock [who was stupid enough to buy stock that overvalued anyway, didn't anyone learn anything from the last dotcome collapse?].

[pipermark]

"a good link" does that mean if I can get someone with a good ranking to link back to me?