Google vs MSN
Thread Watch has a good comparison of the good and bad of two search engines - one established one still in beta but presparing to launch - Google vs MSN:
‘Both the Google and Msn engines have their good and bad points, but the major plus for Google is that they already have a huge userbase searching regulary on their engine and the majority of those searchers are happy with the results. To best compare the two engines and their current state of play I’ve split each of them into positives / negatives.’
A lot has been said about Google’s strengths and weaknesses but MSN is a Search Engine that fascinates me. So far it has been pretty good in terms of sending readership to my blogs - in fact in the last week we’ve ranked very highly on this domain for some search terms whilst the last month has seen a real drop off in the traffic coming from Google (it seems I’m not alone in seeing an increase in MSN traffic) Here is some of thread watch’s comments on MSN:
‘Msn’s Positives
- So much money to spend advertising it’s scary and they will spend it
- Got users by the OS, can implement the search engine to the desktop via Longhorn
- Result’s dont look too shoddy
- Faster indexing compared to Google
- No sandbox or whatever you want to call it
- All ready has a large’ish user base from Msn.com but not many search
- Quite a sleak design on search page (search.msn.com)
- ‘Near me’ technology is a great achievement and is very useful
- More results than Google on most searches
- Faster searches than Google (I’ve done tests)
- Promises to bring a new era in search with new technology coming soon’
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