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MSN Search Engine Favors IIS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the kinda-surprising-i-guess dept.

Scud writes "It appears that if you want to rise up in the rankings over at the MSN search engine you would do well to host your page on IIS. Ivor Hewitt has done a study and it appears that by using IIS, you are likely to increase your odds of a higher listing by several percent."

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  1. Absolutely by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My page is titled "San Andreas Radio" and if you Google it, comes out #1 or #2 every time.

    MSN it and it comes out about #7. Either they're being paid to reduce its rank (it's a bit subversive), or they don't like the fact I'm hosted on Linux, or they simply don't have a very good search engine.

    If I put the exact unique title of a page into an engine, I expect that page to be #1.

  2. nearly first in google not even listed in mssearch by incuso · · Score: 5, Interesting

    My site is first or nearly first in google using relevant search terms. But in MSN it never shows (even if listed). Maybe also the use of PHP is harmful for MSN ranking? M.

  3. Just have your Apache report that it is IIS ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For years now, the company where I work has had all it's Apache systems reporting that they are IIS 5.0 systems. Just a quick change in a single file before compiling and there you go!

  4. A possible explanation by rabtech · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Most of those useless keyword, domain parking/hijacking, and spam sites out there run on Linux+Apache because the owner can host thousands of those domains fairly inexpensively, and that's the key to all spam: minimization of operating expenses so you only need 1 out of 100,000 users to click/buy to turn a profit.

    These sites don't have any real content, they just point to other sites and/or exist to spam you with advertisements. Some of them have googlebombed their way higher into the rankings.

    My guess is that MSN does a slightly better job of filtering those useless sites out of the index at the present time, OR the "googlebombing" techniques they use aren't as effective with MSN's indexing. Since they almost exclusively use Apache that would have the false appearance of favoring IIS.

    This is just a guess, but it seems plausable.

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