As an item of curiosity . .

Post #125,358 by Andrew Grygus 11/12/03 2:01:43 PM Reply	As an item of curiosity . . . . msn directs far more search users to [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit029.html\|2003 and Beyond] than any of the other search engines - almost as many as the rest combined. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #125,456 by CRConrad 11/13/03 2:54:29 AM Reply	A guess: The wording you happened to choose for your title.. ...coincides with either A) "Hot" words in the MSN search algorithm, or B) What 'power'[] users of MS stuff see as "forward-looking statements of direction" (i.e, MS marketing-speak about upcoming attractions), which is exactly what this type of [l]user can be reasonably expected to be looking for, thus making the link much more likely to be clicked on when returned by a search on that site than on any other search engine. []: In irony-quote-marks for several reasons; perhaps mainly because, they're running their search for hard facts on MS's future direction on an MS site?!? [link\|mailto:MyUserId@MyISP.CountryCode\|Christian R. Conrad] (I live in Finland, and my e-mail in-box is at the Saunalahti company.) Resident [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=119792\|zIWETHEY pilkunnussija]
Post #125,490 by Andrew Grygus 11/13/03 11:17:03 AM Reply	Another factor would be . . . . the number of times the words "Microsoft", "Longhorn" and "2003" appear in the text. The fact that hits from msn are so high says to me they are giving heavy preference to pages including these words. So much for impartial searches from msn. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]

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