How to? in MSN

Strange results

[BillyS]

I think it's against the TOS here to post specific search terms, but I as trying to figure out if there was a better way to edge my lawn.

I used one of the How to... phrases

- Ask nails this type of search term every time.
- Google also lets me find exactly what I'm looking for on page one.
- Yahoo gets it too, but not exactly. Too much shopping focus.
- MSN is way off, not even close. Nothing at all one page 1.

I tried what I thought might be other popular searches of this type and MSN missed every time.

[egurr]

I've noticed that as well. We just finished a big relevancy study which we're posting Tuesday and Google showed 8 results for that type of search while MSN only showed 3 exact matches.

[BillyS]

egurr - if you're making that study public, I'd like a sticky with the URL please.

[egurr]

Sent you the message Billys.

[daneosporin]

Are you trying to say the blogspot sites aren't helpful?

[egurr]

You mean helpful as far as determining relevance? If so probably not. There needs to be some control samples on the research and you have to evaluate hundreds of searches. But then again, it doesn't really matter what any study says, about half the people use Google.