MSN Brazil

[Garya]

These results are the best yet
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[Kelowna]

I agree these results look very good. They seem to have slowed down the blog takeover and the subdirectory probs. These should be live on msn.com

[chrisv1963]

I agree, very good "normal" results here!

[zeus]

Yes those looks ok, but its always a little difficult to view outside results because of favor of inland sites, but it looks good, still singapore looks best.

[angiolo]

Good for me too!

A good balance of "weights" between page content, internal links and linkpopularity.

It's clean!

[chrisv1963]

"still singapore looks best"

I don't see a lot of difference between the Singapore and Brazil results for the keywords that I follow. Both are good.

[textex]

Why is MSN providing the most inferior results in the US?!?!?

[asiaseo]

I have checked not just within our own regional zone but also for searches for various in other parts of the world and the results come out looking clear and clean on MSN Singapore. It is somewhat strange though that on Yahoo Singapore and also Yahoo Australia the results whether regional or other international ares appear good. I have not looked at Brazil in a few weeks but those results were good ( but allowing for the higher local content ) when I last had a look.

[asiaseo]

I will add that ninemsn ( Australia ) also show good results but I have only checked for this region.

[Kelowna]

I see that the Singapore results bring up a few more UK sites in the results so maybe that is why they look better for some. For me the Brazil and search.latam.msn.com results look best.

[Garya]

Brazil is looking better and better, no need to improve on these results.
US results are really sub-par for a search engine kind of back to the old results back in 1998 or so on altavista or excite.

[asiaseo]

My concerns are always for local sites that do not do well on the main .com of any of the majors, though regional results we do very well indeed. The main reason is about having links. I feel that if a link to another site is placed it is to provide additional information for the site visitor, and if someone wishes to link to us or other sites the same should apply. But that could be a small number, and of couse almost nothing when compared to sites have tens of thousands of links.
There may be some theory about a link being considored a vote for another site but when those thousands of sites are supposed to mean that a site is more relevant, I disagree. You only have to look at the masses of link pages so many sites have that are near the top of results.
Perhaps they do not put so much weight on links in the regionals.