New MSN Search Now Available

Well, it looks like the mythical MSN Search is alive and kicking: http://techpreview.search.msn.com/ .

Over all the results are pretty nice - but there are definitely some keyword areas that need some work.

In general, for sites in niches that I promote, pretty much the same factors that make a site rank well in Yahoo and Google will let it rank well in the new MSN search.

This "tech preview" does show a few problems - namely that unlike most other search engines - MSN Search is showing every page from a site that matches the search terms.

One of my sites occupies 38 of the first 45 search results for a keyword.

More to come, I am sure.