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adbart
04-13-2005, 01:21 PM
I'm not sure anyone else has commented on this.
Don't you think that MSN Search, even though it might not be quite as good at producing the results as Google, looks a lot better?
The results pages are much more stylish, and just generally it feels a lot more 'homely' I guess.
I'm not advocating using MSN though, lol.
adbart
04-14-2005, 09:58 AM
The topic of this thread is not mature enough, evidently.
jackson992
04-14-2005, 04:06 PM
Well MSN definitely ranks sites more fairly than Google
janeth
04-14-2005, 06:09 PM
I think the look and feel of the results are important.
But I do not see them being any better then Google.
If you search from msn.com I think Google is better, if you search from search.msn.com I like the look of that page better then Google.
But the results are both the same to me.
You would think with as much money as they have they would try and come up with something different.
adbart
04-14-2005, 06:51 PM
You would think with as much money as they have they would try and come up with something different.
I agree. It's not exactly anything special. It looks stylish, but this is Microsoft! They should be able to totally re-invent the way people search the internet.
smakyyy
04-20-2005, 03:16 AM
but microsoft has a history of putting a stripped down version of their product out and then improving it as they go along. so i would think they will be getting only better going forward.
adbart
04-25-2005, 07:30 AM
I think you're probably right...
Chris
04-27-2005, 09:47 AM
and apparently, they prefer sites hosted on iis server environments (http://www.ivor.it/goog/)...
KeithO
04-27-2005, 03:14 PM
and apparently, they prefer sites hosted on iis server environments (http://www.ivor.it/goog/)...why do they have to be biased? MSN perfers IIS based sites and Google prefers sites that use adSense.
brian.mark
04-27-2005, 03:24 PM
That was a very interesting link, CRich. I expected that to be the case, but didn't know it had actually happened. If we didn't rank #1 on most of our favorite keywords (using Apache / Linux) I'd be suggesting a class action.
:-)
Brian.
Jerry
04-28-2005, 04:10 PM
I looked over the link posted by CRich, and I was thinking that perhaps MS used IIS servers as their initial seed for their results. The numbers aren't staggeringly different, really.
(Besides, ALL of my sites are hosted on IIS servers ;P)