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Results look very good so far, Look out Google!
AND THERE WAS THREE
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Dead on post grelmar.
try to search the very common word fu*k and see the results
Much better if it was for f*cker though ;)
Results I am seeing so far are an improvement over last fall, but still not up to quality of Google and Yahoo. They don't have to give the same result, but they can't give crappy results for common searches. And that is what I am still seeing in some of the searches I ran.
I like having 3 competitors, as it diversifies the risks. But MSN still has a way to go here with this.
It has probably helped keep us as the #1 search result for a 2 keyword actress name search for 2 years on Yahoo, Google, Teoma, Ask, and Mama.
However, our site and many other sites in the same genre are listed nowhere in any MSN beta search.
This is black listing and censorship at its worst.
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We have been a DMOZ directory site for along time, as well as a Yahoo Directory site.It has probably helped keep us as the #1 search result for a 2 keyword actress name search for 2 years on Yahoo, Google, Teoma, Ask, and Mama.
However, our site and many other sites in the same genre are listed nowhere in any MSN beta search.
This is black listing and censorship at its worst.
Do I understand you correctly - you are using complete duplicate content and complaining that MSN Beta won't rank your duplicate content? And that's a problem with MSN beta? ...hehe ....if that's correct, now I've heard everything...
Maybe? hhhmmn..how about disorganization or pushing too fast. I've worked for brick and mortar business that put the cart before the horse than tried to catch up or do damage control.
I've done a number of searches on MSN beta and it's pretty literal as you've seen, grabbing at words to search and to heck with the order. I use to have sites rank well(on MSN) pertaining to the area I live in and now the results QUICKLY run out picking up similarly named areas here on earth. This thing doesn't need just one tweak to make it good!
What do you suppose the regular surfer thinks? I propose we ask people who aren't involved with I.T., design, mastering etc what they think of it.
If I were Yahoo right now, I'd have a tv ad blaring it's easier to find the things your looking for with yahoo.com (I'm not a big yahoo user either, well didn't use to be ;o)
No, you certainly do not understand correctly. I have nothing to do with the other sites. Some are commercial photo sites, some are movie/TV database sites, some are fan sites, some are message board sites. There is a lot going on that is completely missed on MSN search that the major SEs find with no problem.
That is exactly the opportunity that going live with this beta in this condition will provide to the other SEs.
It's not a smart move at all on Microsoft's part to release this just because the calendar says "Yep, we're past mid-January".
