MSN search, little different?

[schlottke]

Sifting through my traffic reports, I found myself looking at different SERPs on MSN... Interesting that they show different search results #'s for different terms... for example:

Wrestling shows "#6" results on the first page: http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=wrestling&FORM=QBRE

while Wrestling Shoes shows "9". http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=wrestling+shoes&FORM=QBRE

a search for Ben Sherman's shows "10"
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=Ben+Sherman%27s&FORM=QBRE


I've been trying to understand why they would do this, perhaps to narrow the choices and appear more accurate? What are your opinions?

[yfs1]

Not to mention if you keep clicking to the next page, not only does it cahnge but it seems to skip results:

1-6 of 32,628,832 - Page 1
11-18 of 32,628,832 - Page 2
21-30 of 32,628,832 - Page 3

It seems it is screwed up just like when you use the link: command and it changes after 10 pages.

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[keywordguru]

They must be doing some type of weening where they are using older results still?

[crazyhorse]

Well i have noticed that when your search local per country , the results that are then displayed differ enormous..

[yfs1]

Schlottke -

It seems we are the only two that realize this error. Maybe it is only a few datacenters :D

It has nothing to do with the fact that they rank differently or the results arent right etc....It has to do with the fact that it shows 6 results on a page where it clearly thinks its displaying 10.

[mopacfan]

Ok ok you two, put your tin foil hats back on. ;)

[Design Agent]

I have noticed the same things, number of results is constantly changing. Also, a few sites rank for completely different keywords, no relevance to each other or the sites themselves.