A useful experiment

[PikoTech]

As a developer, I guess I run just about as many searches per day as most do (I have never counted, but there are quite a lot, be it scripts, documentation, whatever). Today I decided to run my own experiment:

USING MSN FOR ONE DAY INSTEAD OF GOOGLE

Personally, I've found the new MSN Search to beat Google hands down on everything I have looked for (I seem to be spending a lot less time actually looking through page number 2, 3, etc to get what I want).

I noticed (as you can imagine) MSN still doesn't show as many results as Google, which I guess can leave problems when you are searching for a specific phrase especially. All the same I was rather impressed realising I can usually find what I want faster than I can with Google.

For now, I will be using the new MSN on a daily basis (obviously if things don't work out, I can beg Google to take me back). It does really make me wonder if Google is past the days of "It's best to do one thing really, really well.
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[Mr Mustard]

I'm in the same boat, I'm a developer too and frequently search for technical documents and code samples.

At the moemnt though I still thing Google shades MSN on these types of searches (not much in it)

But MSN is far better when searching for shops and products than google which seems to prefer the big directories rather than going straight to products.

[gemsandcrafts]

MSN seems to index everything in virtually no time. I entered something on my site yesterday and within less than 16 hours it is showing on the MSN search. Earlier people used to be happy if Google and Yahoo indexed and displayed a new link after 2 to 3 days of it being added.

I think MSN is making advances in its Search Engine business faster than the competitors expected.