Posted by randfish
A great many tech-specific site owners consistently bemoan the fact that market share stats like these:
Percentage of U.S. Searches Among Leading Search Engine Providers
Oct.-07
Sept.-07
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MSN Search Update
MSN announced they are upgrading relevancy and coverage. The increased coverage likely means that more inbound link sources are getting indexed. From looking at rankings of a few of my sites it looks like:
anchor text got A LOT more weighting
many lower authority links that were not passing weight (due to not being in their index) are passing weight. For some competitive core industry related phrases (not SEO, another industry) I see a site that went from #150 to top 5 based on the anchor text of lots of low authority links.fresh links are still heavily trusted, but sites with older links but few fresh links now rank a bit better than they used to in the older MSN, likely due to the more comprehensive index coverage. for as much as Google has beat down some directory links, MSN just gave them a lot of love.MSN is still screwing up some navigational queries. For example, my homepage does not rank for seobook. Though I have already seen them fix some of these issues.Internal anchor text still counts, but it might seem slightly demoted, as a side effect of more competing pages and more links getting indexed.MSN mentioned that they were also looking to get more into universal search.Yahoo! Search Update
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Posted by randfish
Last week, the New York Times opened up their 13 million document archive and dropped their Times Select program (which allowed access in exchange for a fee). This move was covered extensively in the blogosphere and even influenced other giants in the online publishing world (like Murdoch on the WSJ) to question their own content strategies.
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