Some of my sites are higher in the new MSN than Google, a some are lower, so I am neutral on MSN from this respect.

However - for the last week when I have needed to search for anything unrelated to SEO or my sites (eg movie time; hotel etc) - I have deliberately used both Google and MSN (repeating the search). Conclusion: MSN is crap and has a long way to go to catch up to Google.

CBP