I have already gotten into Google first/second page (1 month) but only for non competetive keywords. I have already derived some traffic from them I can imagine getting a ton of traffic when I get to the 1st page for 2/3 word keword terms rather than 4/5 words terms. MSN is giving me a few hits but if you are beyond 1st page you have no hope, the same goes for Yahoo.
I really don't know why people see google as the only one SE. There are many websitea who get much better resuls from msn and yahoo then from google. also good, banners on relevant websites can bring some good traffic. then there are newsletters, articles, news, threds, mails, directories, All this and a good optimization and you can forget about google. in this case....gooogle wont forget you. mike l. http://www.artwebtemplates.us
I used to love yahoo more than any other search. But... a long time ago, we did a project and looked for a few things on MSN, YAHOO, and GOOGLE. 4/5 google was the highest, 1/5 yahoo was. none msn was. I cant recall what we searched for, i think it was like dogs, or something simple. Either way, that changed me to google. Also i think it loads alot faster than yahoo, and that 1/12 of a second matters to me =p.
I get #1 and #2 rankings on Google for most of the keywords for my site but generally disappear onto back pages on Yahoo and MSN. Google's results for most any keyword search seem logical and it's easy to see why the resulting sites are presented for that keyword or keyphrase. On Yahoo and MSN, the results often make no sense -- some pretty goofy sites show up in the first results. If I were a researcher, Yahoo and MSN would drive me crazy.