MSN search is coming

[michaelbs]

After a week or two of launching the new improved search, msn search is advertised everywere i go online! Makes you think they have BIG plans to take the market share fast! After a long day of work online i go and watch a little TV and guess who is in my face again - You got it! MSN search are on the box too.

I can't understand the folks who do not believe MSN search are going to steamroll the search market with there gigantic wallet.

[cleanup]

MSN need to throw away that all that geo marketing/targeting crud, then work on improving just one DB and get it right and then the users might, just might, follow.

[nutsandbolts]

That is very true. The geo-targeting is a seriously big fly in their search engine ointment.

[houseofsecrets]

Referrals from MSN are at record levels for my sites this week, rising daily.

[Liane]

With due respect to you houseofsecrets, I can honestly make the claim:

My MSN search referrals have nearly doubled over the past 2 months!

However, going from 30 referrals per day to 57 ... versus 130 from Yahoo and 480 from Google isn't really what I would define as an overwhelming improvement. (Note: I averaged the figures over the past two months)

Certainly, it is an undeniable improvement overall, but they are still a very distant third. I get the same number of referrals MSN delivers on a per day basis from two small (niche) sites linking to me. For all their marketing efforts and spin in the media ... if they can't out deliver two small niche sites, I think its fair to say they still have quite a way to go!

<added> BTW ... my rankings in MSN are as good or better than in Google & Yahoo which speaks to their overall popularity as a search engine.

[incrediBILL]

My MSN was good before the new search launched.

The day it went live I vaporized - just a domain name shows, no synopsis, no pages, nothing else.

I've emailed the MSN pinheads on this issue about 10 times now and get the same moronic response each time "we typed in your site name and it shows in the results". HELLO?!?!? WHERE IS THE SYNOPSIS? WHERE ARE THE PAGES? WHERE HAS THE LITERACY GONE IN BANGALEDESH TECH SUPPORT?

[crobb305]

I see my MSN referrals increasing a bit every day. It seems like the index is still being built in an iterative manner. But my positions on keywords I monitor seem very stable. Further, my home page is only getting crawled/refreshed about every 10 days. Seems like, for the most part, things change very slowly in MSN. But, I am thankful that as of yet, my pages/rankings have not been affected by 302s like they have in Google.

[LongView]

Just an FYI to everyone, I am starting to think "Freshness" is one of the key factors of the new engine. Someone I know coincidentally redid their entire site and went skyrocketing to #1 out of over 8 million results and we were on page one #5 and went skydiving to page 4.

The only difference here is that he did a complete revamp of his old content on his site and home page... so MSN see's him as "new".

This is just a guess, but ... we are # 1 on google out of 8 million results ... we should not be on page 4 of MSN... period.