MSN Search No Longer In Beta

oppenheimer · #1 (**permalink**) 02-01-2005, 10:27 AM

If you pay a visit to msn.com today you will see a fresh new look along with a letter from Bill Gates announcing the start of the new MSN search: http://specials.msn.com/letter/billgates.html?GT1=6190

Initial performance of our mortgage broker web designs has been exceptional and we are looking forward to the competition this new search offers both Yahoo and Google.

oppenheimer · #2 (**permalink**) 02-11-2005, 06:17 PM

And interestingly enough three of our real estate client sites are ranked 1, 2 and 3 for their top search term. How about that!

oppenheimer · #3 (**permalink**) 03-03-2005, 09:39 AM

Well a month has passed since the new MSN went live. And by now we can say that it is a BIG improvement over the inktomi/yahoo results they had been serving up prior to February 1st. Referal traffic is up across the board for both our mortgage broker client websites and our real estate client websites.

Interestingly enough, a mortgage site we posted on a brand new domain and began to build stength for immediatley in December 2004 already has many top ramkings (1-5) for major search terms in a very competitive market. Stil no where to be found in Google and Yahoo. Yahoo has seemed stagnant in the early months of 2005.

What are you seeing form the new MSN?