The title speaks for itself, and although MSN won my most recent relevancy test competition, something is completely backwards about the search engine. When I say that it sucks, I'm speaking strictly as a frustrated webmaster and SEOer.
Complaint #1: I have sites ranked in the top 3 in both Google and Yahoo while MSN doesn't even recognize the site. Tens of thousands of backlinks, thousands of pages, a high level of authority, and MSN doesn't have the site in it's index yet? Something's wrong here.
Complaint #2: I can create a new website with a domain name of www.My-Keyword.com, and be ranked in the top 5 in less than a week. Why should domain name have that much weight?
Memo to the Live.com engineers: bring your search algorithm into the 21st century, because honestly, it's awful.
Just my 2 cents.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
MSN's Live.com search engine really sucks
Posted byThe Google Watchdogat5:36 PM
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if the site is not even indexed in MSN it has nothing to do with their algo right?
Rather with a problem their crawlers encounter on that site..maybe a redirect or something. It has nothing to do with their algo.
And also Google gives the same importance to the keywords in the domain name-maybe bigger.
MSN has just become a complete joke. I honestly believe that they no longer spend anything on their search engine. Hence the ridiculous outcomes.
P.S. I also get top billing on kw's in my url with them, before I create any backlinks at all. Weird.
I couldn't agree more. Google owns 60% of the search engine market. it is where I get most of my traffic.
MSN is indexing slower the sites and maybe that is why that site wasn't even recognized. And I disagree MSN is useless..is just no match for Google but not useless. Not yet
Hasn't google started to follow this trend, in a so so manner as of late?
Lmao SOOO true, my site nm4.org (not trying to advertise or anything) has good rankings on google and yahoo etc.. just not MSN. Kinda weird.
Yeah, but its still usefull for me. 1 of my new blog have a nice result from them :)
I just hate MSN Live!!!
MSN sucks.. period.