MSN Search Competitors
Summary: Competitor web search engines
Major competitors:
*
Google *
Yahoo
Comparison Chart
| | MSN Search | Google | Yahoo! |
| Recommended Practices | | | |
| Keyword-rich title tags | (y) | (y) | (y) |
| Keyword-rich body copy | (y) | (y) | (y) |
| Links from "important" sites | (y) | (y) | (y) |
| Keyword-rich link text | (y) | (y) | (y) |
| Practices to Avoid | | | |
| Complex URL's | >5 parameters | >6 parameters | Unknown, but less tolerant than Google and MSN Search beta |
| Frames | To a degree (but orphan frames are common) | To a degree (but orphan frames are common) | To a degree (but orphan frames are common) |
| Javascript-based links | (n) | (y) to a degree | (y) to a degree |
| Too many links per page | Unknown | >100 links | Unknown |
| Page is too many clicks away from home page | >3 clicks | Unknown | Unknown |
| Automated queries | Currently not discouraged | Excessive queries from an IP address can result in the IP being blocked. Violates Google's Terms of Service unless using Google's API. | Excessive queries from an IP address are ignored. |
| Vital Statistics | | | |
| Amount of page indexed | 150K | 150K | 500K |
| Default # of results per page | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Size of index | 5 billion documents | 8 billion documents | undisclosed |
| Market share | 15% (existing Inktomi-powered MSN Search) | 45% | 32% |
| Querying | | | |
| inurl: | (n) | (y) | (y) |
| filetype: | (n) | (y) | (y) |
| link: | (y) | (y) (but results are only a sampling) | (y) |
| linkdomain: | (n) | (n) | (y) |
| Boolean logic (+, OR, -) | (y) | (y) | (y) |
| Local search | (y) "Near Me" (currently very limited) | (y) Google Local | (y) Yahoo! Local |
| Reordering the search results | (y) (by freshness, popularity, exactness of match) | (n) | (n) |
| Query word limit | (y) No limit | (n) 32 words | (y) No limit |
| RSS Results | (y) | (n) | (y) News |
| Wildcard search | (n) | (n) | (n) |
| Indexing of RSS feeds | (n) | (n) | (y) |
| Crawling of links in RSS feeds | (n) | (n) | (n) |
-- sspencer
Other competitor web search engines:
*
A9 *
AskJeeves *
Gigablast - av613
(For competitors to MSN Desktop Search, see
DesktopSearchCompetitors) SeeAlso: MSNSearch
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