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Old 01-14-2006, 01:27 PM  
Kevsh
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Originally Posted by archiveman
In my everyday experience, MSN and Yahoo both have a loooooooong way to go before their searches are as relevant as Google's. Take "big breast" and "big breasts": I get number 2 on Google for both those phrases, but pretty much nothing on the others; also, they list many sites which clearly aren't as relevant or are simply spamming the search engines with repeat terms.

... Also, from a usability perspective, I find Google's results are easier to read.
Obviously you are biased because of your success with google

But I think you'll find that if you do comparitive searches for many terms on MSN and Google, and put yourself in the mind of someone actually looking for content /relevancy - not just links - you'll like what MSN shows.

Of course the results are from artificially inflated sites but it seems that the ones ranking well are for the most part deserving based on what's on the actual page/site.
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