I am seeing a very smnall percentage of traffic from MSN ... less than 5% of Google but I rank higher in MSN for my keywords. This would suggest that MSN has much less traffic to distribute. Does anyone else have feedback on this?
MSN is the dirty stepchild of search engines. It's the third most popular as far as I know (more popular than Ask, av (yes it's still around), and all the others, but not really on the same tier with Google and Yahoo. Like anything else, there are niches where MSN does very well. They are likely to increase traffic levels substantially with Vista coming out - but not as much as you would think because OEMs will be shipping Vista with other-than-Live search engines configured as the default.
I dont think they are loosing their place, but i think they're not just getting anywhere. I think vista will do a good one for msn like nevetS said.
I think msn is doing better than before, though still far away from yahoo and google. Take live.com into account, it will be better in future. Catch up with yahoo maybe easy, but impossible exceed google in the near future.