Why use MSN?

davidstoys · 06-01-2007, 10:38 PM

It doesn't have a great market share in Search Engines. Sometimes its slow as a turtle in glue. And other days it just doesn't find what you are looking for. (at least in my experience). Stick with Google.

sheena · 06-02-2007, 06:29 AM

Just like Google and Yahoo, we use MSN for keyword position, ranking and backlinks.

jwd25 · 06-10-2007, 03:19 PM

Even achieving density of 80% for my meta tag, MSN still record zero for my backlink even though my Yahoo links are increasing daily. Don't think MSN is that significant.

Alan · 06-10-2007, 03:38 PM

I get a number of referrals from MSN, about a third of what Google sends me, MSN is still a significant search engine.

MSN had backlinks registerd foe my site which I could see with the link: directive, now none. From my reading across other forums I remmeber reading that MSN (or should we call this live.com) has suspended this directive, I don't know if this suspension is temporary or not.

eprosumer · 06-10-2007, 07:10 PM

MSN doesnt allow you to check the number of backlinks!!

Alan · 06-10-2007, 09:09 PM

Here's the definitive answer about the use of the link: and the linkdomain: directives: It's from a blog post by Eytan Seidman, the Lead Programmer Manager at Live Search

Quote:

For those of you who use some of the advanced query syntax in our search engine such as link:, linkdomain: and inurl:, you may have noticed that this functionality has been recently turned off. We have been seeing broad use of these features by legitimate users but unfortunately also what appears to be mass automated usage for data mining. So for now, we have made the tough call to block all queries with these operators.

It goes on to say that they do hope to have these back online once a manner to have these used these in the way for which they are intended has been devised.

For the full blog entry can be found at http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/arc...tered-but.aspx

toinkzzz · 06-18-2007, 08:35 PM

I still consider MSN in keyword position, ranking and backlinks just like Google and Yahoo since this is one of the big 3 S.E...

sheena · 06-19-2007, 07:23 AM

I still consider MSN because of good result in keyword ranking.

Talker · 06-20-2007, 10:07 AM

MSN is no doubt a looser in SEPRS... i have never found what i have tried to look for on MSN... Google Rocks !

NavyCS · 06-20-2007, 11:42 AM

At least in the US about 10% of the seaches (Feb 07 data) occur thru MSN. My belief is a good majority of those searchers are government employees because of the secure systems the use and are all loaded with windows - you can't add toolbars to your browsers and MSN is most the time set as the homepage so they tend to use what is in front of them. If I recall correctly 28% of the searches in the US are Yahoo and 49% Google.

freetesthost · 07-04-2007, 11:00 AM

1 free
2 majority search

NavyCS · 07-04-2007, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by freetesthost

1 free
2 majority search

Majority search? MSN is barely 10% of the search market.

eprosumer · 07-22-2007, 10:53 AM

where is MSN Chat!

carspare · 07-22-2007, 01:04 PM

its not at all bad. I have seen many people using msn and they happy with the result. Sometime I cant see the result on google then i have to go to msn or yahoo to find something more specific. Specially their new features like images in live search is better than google and yahoo.
With google one bad thing is there are big fish already there. Whatever you type in it comes up witht their website. Either it is related with your search or not , it will show because there are word machted on their site and because of pr higher.

! HT Brigham ! · 08-09-2007, 01:54 PM

My sites come up better in MSN than Google

06-01-2007, 10:38 PM	#1
davidstoys Newcomer Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 14	Why use MSN? It doesn't have a great market share in Search Engines. Sometimes its slow as a turtle in glue. And other days it just doesn't find what you are looking for. (at least in my experience). Stick with Google.

06-02-2007, 06:29 AM	#2
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06-10-2007, 03:19 PM	#3
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Alan iWEBTOOL Moderator Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Ayr, Scotland Posts: 1,064	Re: Why use MSN? I get a number of referrals from MSN, about a third of what Google sends me, MSN is still a significant search engine. MSN had backlinks registerd foe my site which I could see with the link: directive, now none. From my reading across other forums I remmeber reading that MSN (or should we call this live.com) has suspended this directive, I don't know if this suspension is temporary or not. __________________ ahb Solutions Consultancy and Web Development Seen a good post - Give some reputation click on the

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06-20-2007, 11:42 AM	#10
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07-04-2007, 11:00 AM	#11
freetesthost Newcomer Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 4	Re: Why use MSN? 1 free 2 majority search

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carspare Newcomer Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: uk Posts: 37	Re: Why use MSN? its not at all bad. I have seen many people using msn and they happy with the result. Sometime I cant see the result on google then i have to go to msn or yahoo to find something more specific. Specially their new features like images in live search is better than google and yahoo. With google one bad thing is there are big fish already there. Whatever you type in it comes up witht their website. Either it is related with your search or not , it will show because there are word machted on their site and because of pr higher. __________________ House for Sale japanese car spares news

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