Comments on: MSFT Drops Paid Inclusion

By: Kirby Winfield

Kirby Winfield — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 19:33:13 +0000

Actually the “commercial come-ons” and so-called clutter JB refers to on MSN’s former search page appear to be just what the average MSN user wants: More than 70% of MSN Search users find paid results to be *more relevant/useful* than “natural” results (according to iProspect’s recent search user study)…

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 02 Jul 2004 10:06:43 +0000

You mean people actually *use* MSN to search the web? I thought Google did that

By: Paramendra Bhagat

Paramendra Bhagat — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 16:58:27 +0000

So Google promises 1 GB, Yahoo delivers 100 MB, Microsoft 250. Then the two runner-ups try and catch up on the search itself. I eagerly wait the Google freebie that lets you store online all that you are used to storing on the Windows desktop. Now that would be competition. Consumer-win competition.