That's The Way To Beat Google !!!
Proving once more their superiority and ability to provide excellent beyond the desktop Microsoft's MSN search engine is ... currently down.
If I could send one message over to one Mr. Gates it would be that a service as important to their business model as MSN has become should never EVER be run on a Windows machine. ;) If you want to talk about losing market share to a competitor this is how to do it. Driving your users to a competing website insures that they will have the opporunity to test out the other sites and ... uh oh ... they just might like what they see. Anyone currently trying to run searches on MSN will get an error message, now where do you think they'll go?
Hopefully for their sake they'll have it back up-and-running shortly. Maybe they'll only lose a percentage or two of marketshare.
If I could send one message over to one Mr. Gates it would be that a service as important to their business model as MSN has become should never EVER be run on a Windows machine. ;) If you want to talk about losing market share to a competitor this is how to do it. Driving your users to a competing website insures that they will have the opporunity to test out the other sites and ... uh oh ... they just might like what they see. Anyone currently trying to run searches on MSN will get an error message, now where do you think they'll go?
Hopefully for their sake they'll have it back up-and-running shortly. Maybe they'll only lose a percentage or two of marketshare.
SEO news blog post by Dave Davies, CEO at 2:15 PM
