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Post November 11th, 2004, 8:36 am

In case anyone is interested and hadn't heard yet:

From ZDNET
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-5447657.html

The beta search:
http://beta.search.msn.com/
It must be getting pretty well pounded with traffic . At the moment it's running extremely slow.
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Post November 11th, 2004, 8:39 am

BETA-SCHMETA!

Haven't they done this six times before?

Talk to me when they release the real deal?
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Post November 11th, 2004, 9:11 am

Yeah it's still using the same yahoo index.

http://search.msn.com (new interface) Same yahoo index results.

Nothing new.

I think it is just microsoft's soft marketing until they really launch.
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Post November 11th, 2004, 9:16 am

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The beta search:
http://beta.search.msn.com/
It must be getting pretty well pounded with traffic . At the moment it's running extremely slow.


What do you mean? It's prolly running on a windows server instead of linux or unix. haha! (Remember after microsoft bought out hotmail and swapped out the unix servers and there were all those performance problems?)
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Post November 11th, 2004, 9:18 am

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What do you mean? It's prolly running on a windows server instead of linux or unix. haha!


Lol :P
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Post November 12th, 2004, 10:16 am

it's actually not returning the same results... I went to their "beta" site (search.msn.com) and it did return the same yahoo results... then I went to beta.search.msn.com and it does return different results... unfortunately my sites are way down on MSN from where they were before... anyone know what it is using to come up with those rankings yet??
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Post November 12th, 2004, 2:06 pm

I reckon MSN Small Business Directory has an influence.

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Post November 12th, 2004, 5:58 pm

yeah I don't know where they are getting your results. I guess it really is their own index. The PPC ads are slightly different than overture too.
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Post November 13th, 2004, 2:02 am

Yeap, i wish Msn will use that Beta.search.msn.com asap... :wink:

My site are in top position in most of my keywords.
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Post November 13th, 2004, 2:23 pm

My site is coming up on the first page!

This is a momentous occasion!
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Post November 13th, 2004, 6:41 pm

discountdomains wrote:
I reckon MSN Small Business Directory has an influence.

Clare


Yeap, i think is has an influence too. :wink:

By the way, thanks Clare for listing all my site in your directory. :D

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