MSN's new search engine better than Google?

[jokes4mobiles]

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A collegue was complaining that she was having trouble finding 'stuff' on the net recently. She's a fairly novice computer user so I offered to help.

She was looking for information about a rock festival in cornwall and had the name of the festival so we entered

"rock and blues in the park" cornwall

into google.

Results = Zilch, nothing, big fat zero.


So I thought, 'lets give that new engine at MSN a try apparently it updates more often than google'. Same search term.

2 results, I grant you both with the same text, but a few clicks later we had the info we were looking for.
(me looking like 'expert' again).

I know this is a very unscientific (not expert as not sure of spelling for scientific) experiment but it's got me thing whether I should be changing search engine.

Anyone know how to get top results on MSN?????????

[Dayo_UK]

I am surprised that Google had nothing for that search as the results are so few that they would not have been effected by the sandbox.

MSN does seem to update very quickly - does not go as deep as Google yet. (IMO)

I was excited by the launch of the new msn as I had more pages indexed than the Inktomi(Yahoo) results that they were served. Unfortunatley it seems that MSN Search has a lot less traffic than I expected.

Would love the market share to change to 30% for MSN,Google and Yahoo - or even 25% each if including Ask.

[webvideo4u]

We're top for all of our keywords on MSN so yes, much better

Seriously though the more competition the better and I guess time will tell whether users find MSN as good as webmasters seem to.

[Elaine]

had a quick check for some keywords which are firmly no 1 in google and found that most affy/shop pages were not as high - sometimes not on the first page - nearly all the listings above were merchant sites.

any top term from the information pages were more or less in the same position as google

anyone else found this