MSN search - Google

Does MSN search use a feed from Google?

Reason I ask, one of my pages has bombed on MSN and Google, both at the
same time.

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On 12 Jul 2005 2317 GMT, Charles Sweeney <me@charlessweeney.com>
wrote:

>Does MSN search use a feed from Google?
>
>Reason I ask, one of my pages has bombed on MSN and Google, both at the
>same time.

No. My guess would be coincidence.

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Disco Octopus wrote

> Charles Sweeney wrote :
>> Yes, but not one that I thought would have been significant. It was
>> on http://sellyourhouseforfree.com/ I made a link to "books", which
>> was a page
>
> It still shows a pr5 from where I am.
>
> I would love to have a page that has "bombed" *down* to pr5.

I didn't even look at the PR thing! I don't hold much store by it.

> Instead of your page "moving down" it could be just that other pages
> have crept up. You know, taken you on the outside...

This is a possibility, but the change was sudden, and happened on MSN
and Google at the same time. This was why I wondered if MSN used a
Google feed (or some sort of Google query).


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Big Bill wrote

> On 12 Jul 2005 2317 GMT, Charles Sweeney <me@charlessweeney.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Does MSN search use a feed from Google?
>>
>>Reason I ask, one of my pages has bombed on MSN and Google, both at
the
>>same time.
>
> No. My guess would be coincidence.

Thanks Bill. Some coincidence don't you think? The page was sitting
merrily on page one for many months, then at the same time bombed on
both search engines?

My own feeling is that it was to do with the change I made. That there
is a common part of the Google and MSN algorithms that produced the same
result.

I have restored the page to the way it was when it was performing well.
I will report back when it's former position is restored!

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