MSRA : Seo Forum

dondor · Advanced Member Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 1165

I don't know if you've seen it already, but I kinda like this new SE by MSN.
http://rwsm.directtaps.net/ - although it's only beta and does not have the complete database of pages that search.msn.com has, It brings nice results (actually not fine by me as far as my keywords) and they seem to come from the most updated MSN SE datacenter.

Another great plus is that they write you on the side - simliar keywords that were searched by their popularity.
enjoy.

WilliamC · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:52 pm

very interesting results from this, will be interesting to watch what M$ does with it.

PhilC · Site Admin Joined: 21 Nov 2002 Posts: 13052

What is it - a search engine or a toolbar? Is it intended to be used as a search engine, or is that just the demo of what you get if you install the toolbar?

It's using a small database at the moment, so it remains to be seen how the useful the left column will be when it has a full index to go at. At the moment the left column is useful. Or have I missed something.

Mel · Site Admin Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 9060

I think that this Beta has great potential - if it incorporates the full database.

I like the idea of seeing the related searches and volume on the left hand side.

WilliamC · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 4:01 pm

PhilC · Site Admin Joined: 21 Nov 2002 Posts: 13052

At first I thought the numbers on the left were searches, which would have been very useful, but I was wrong.

What I don't like is the inability to click back to the homepage after doing a search.

PhilC · Site Admin Joined: 21 Nov 2002 Posts: 13052

I've installed the toolbar. With the "clustering" button selected, it produces the results we see on the website. If it's off, it returns the full MSN results. I think I'll keep it installed.

One thing I do like with the toolbar is that, regardless of whether or not the Clustering button is selected when a search is made, just clicking it goes at gets results from the other setting. I.e. if you searched MSN, then clicking the Clustering button goes and gets the clustered results, and vice versa.

The English on the website leaves a little to be desired, and the spelling in the toolbar does too. One of the Options is "Open a new window to diaplay results each time" - my bolding Smile

WilliamC · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 4:21 pm

I am pretty sure if its adapted into the main msn stuff that wll all be corrected :p

Mel · Site Admin Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 9060

I'll have to load that tool bar and play with it but it Looks like MSN may be pushing Googles button pretty hard with this one.

WilliamC · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 4:49 pm

Results seem pretty damn decent on the searches I have tried so far.

Janeth · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:05 pm

I like the results and the left hand menu. I’m downloading the toolbar now.

Mel · Site Admin Joined: 03 Sep 2003 Posts: 9060

Well I like the results too, but then I have had a #1 ranking on MSN for a long time.

PhilC · Site Admin Joined: 21 Nov 2002 Posts: 13052

The results are not too dissimilar the the main MSN rankings, and maybe when the whole index is used, they will be no different except that it has the left column stuff.

dondor · Advanced Member Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 1165

Results are not that different, but they come from the most recently updated data center.
Yesterday night I've lost my #1 place for some one else and in the regular MSN it appeared only at night, while I've seen it comming with this search about 5 hours earlier.
Never mind the fact that the regular MSN search last night was giving different results for different CAPS in the search.

I think eventually it will be integrated and only then they will update the full database in too it (or a couple of days before - to check it).
Very nice tool, hopefully will be completed soon.

Map Books 4 U · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:23 pm

Wow, I love it, nice find dondor!