How has MSN held up so far?

[internets]

Is anyone using the new search?

How are you finding the SERPs?

Has anyone figured out their algos yet?

While the SERPs are good - they are'nt exactly groundbreaking in their relevancy.

[ihelpyou]

It's fine. They have a ways to go but it's fine. MS is doing lots of TV and print advertising, so people are getting aware of it and are using it. They are tweaking constantly and need to do more of it. Lots of spam get into their database and results.

[ted miller]

Personally I find much more accurate results with msn when actually looking up something on the internet. Google may hate me but there engine is full of spam as well.

[Quadrille]

Originally posted by ted miller
Google may hate me but there engine is full of spam as well. Sounds more like you hate Google - I doubt Google has singled you out for bad results ;)

I find it really depends a lot what you are searching for; sometimes the results are almost identical, sometimes one or other is 'better' - though another person searching on the same term might think them worse :)

It's still early days for M$N, and of course they are not yet being targetted for spam, as Google is. the next few months will prove interesting.

[ted miller]

Before the spam and link engine pages hit google I loved it could find anything I wanted to easily and by typing in what I was looking for. MSN will probably be full of the junk within six months as well.

[internets]

MSN will be releasing their own PPC Advertising called
Moonshot
in a day or so

will be interesting to see how well it does against the others