MSN finally sends more viewers than G

M sent 31% more viewers this month!

[wkpride]

First time M has beaten G for me. Usually G has 75% advantage over MSN, but this month MSN has taken a firm lead. They started kicking in about 1st week of July. G #'s are almost identical to last month. So...M is taking the lead!

[medowl]

That happened to me last month and is even more true this month. In my opinion, MSN is doing a better job of evaluating pages (to my benefit).

[artdog]

MSN does seem to be doing better. It's been my stratagy to do nothing different to rank on M, that they will come to me as they work the bugs out and that's exactly what's happening. Get more from them every month.

On one of my sites they bring more than G or Y.

[rfgdxm1]

>First time M has beaten G for me. Usually G has 75% advantage over MSN, but this month MSN has taken a firm lead. They started kicking in about 1st week of July. G #'s are almost identical to last month. So...M is taking the lead!

This can mean only one thing: Your Google SERPs suck, and by luck or skill you are doing well on MSN. If I can get a site to #1 on any SERP on both Google and MSN, Google will dominate in the logs. ;)

[rfgdxm1]

>That happened to me last month and is even more true this month. In my opinion, MSN is doing a better job of evaluating pages (to my benefit).

Likely translation: "I am doing much better on MSN than Google. Thus MSN is doing a better job of evaluating pages." ;)

I find MSN SERPs wretched as a surfer. I almost never bother with MSN. Google, Yahoo and Ask.com run circles around MSN.

[wkpride]

Ask.com runs circles around MSN? can honestly say I've never used ask. Never known anyone that used it or recommended it.
As far as G, if you were to do a search on widgets in my hometown. G almost always gives a US based site that lists widgets by state, which is ok, IF everyone listed on that site. However there are 25 US based sites competing.While it is a good concept, it makes finding widgets in my town difficult. Anyway, G seems to love that system. MSN seems to shy away from the US based sites in favor of actual hometown sites.
my 2 cents.

[rfgdxm1]

>Ask.com runs circles around MSN? can honestly say I've never used ask. Never known anyone that used it or recommended it.
As far as G, if you were to do a search on widgets in my hometown. G almost always gives a US based site that lists widgets by state, which is ok, IF everyone listed on that site. However there are 25 US based sites competing.While it is a good concept, it makes finding widgets in my town difficult. Anyway, G seems to love that system. MSN seems to shy away from the US based sites in favor of actual hometown sites.
my 2 cents.

You should try out ask.com. Although, if you normally do search for widgets in your hometown, ask.com may not be best. Both Google and ask.com will tend to gravitate to authority sites. A site about widgets in your hometown likely isn't authoratative about widgets in general. Where MSN fails is that on a short search phrase, even on a non-competitive search, it misses some obvious authority sites. But then MSN is fickle. While sometimes SERPs are a mess, other times they are spot on.

[medowl]

Your right about the bias to 'authority' sites - I have the best site on edible magnetic widgets, with a large body of original research and writings. The #1 in G for edible magnetic widgets is an 'authority' widget site that briefly discusses the topic, quotes my work and cites my page. But I am ranked 24th on Google, #1 on MSN. People are finding my site from G, but indirectly. And only about 10-20% of my traffic is directly from search engines - most comes from other sites, or people that have bookmarked the site.

[europeforvisitors]

MSN is still my #3 referrer, with about 1/20 of the referrals that I get from Google and maybe half of what I get from Yahoo. (Its crawler also seems less active than the competition's.)

I'd love to get more MSN traffic--and I'd like to think that I deserve it, since I was on the MSN payroll for 4-1/2 years. :-)

[zeus]

MSN is also our no.1 referrer, before we got 30.000 unique visits from google alone, but since we where hit by the googlebug 302 we recive 2-3 hits, but I think some who is looking for site now knows its on MSN, when they search for some keywords.

[topr8]

i have new sites that get 95% traffic from msn and also viceversa with google.

each has its merits. on sites that are very well established i'm finding that the msn share is not fluctuating much and google is by far the largest search referer.

for those that dis msn search (or any other) and insist on only using google, then please keep doing so!
i'm interested in all search engines results and use them all, i like to see how they change and the results they give.
imho, all the majors give good good (but different) results in my area of interest, i'm sure this my differ for others.

[softwareengineer99]

MSN is suddenly performing very good. G is worthless these days especially when it comes to finding businesses by name. I know of at least 15 major companies with affiliate or reseller programs that don't show up for their own keywords. Some of them are even publicly held. Go figure.

[wkpride]

Not only is M beating G again for a 2nd straight month, Yahoo has taken 2nd place.?