MSN.com now forced to your specific country?

Discussion in 'Bing' started by GADOOD, Mar 24, 2006.

  1. #1
    This I haven't seen before and this I dislike - but only because I like to check my global rankings.

    It seems that if you search on MSN.com now, pop your phrase in and click search it uses the MSN from your country.

    Eg. I'm searching from the UK, and if I search from MSN.com it will show results from MSN.co.uk - this is forced. It isn't an option I have enabled.

    I have no idea how to check the global MSN.com results now and this is quite useful when checking ones global rankings.

    The upside of this is will we see more visitors to our websites if we're hosted within the UK, as the masses of UK users who used MSN.com to search will now be seeing .co.uk results, where it's easier for you to rank within your own country.

    Has anyone else found MSN.com to be forcing the results from MSN.yourcountry in the last few days, possibly even as from today?

    Could it just be because I have used MSN.co.uk recently that it has set a cookie?

    Pete
     
    GADOOD, Mar 24, 2006 IP
  2. Jean-Luc

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    Hi,

    I still get different results on msn.com, msn.co.uk, msn.be,...

    Jean-Luc
     
    Jean-Luc, Mar 24, 2006 IP
  3. tryme1

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    I'm in the UK and I get different results from MSN.com than .co.uk. I've used both recently. Could be a test they are doing though, but it's not something I've seen myself.
     
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  4. FireStorM

    FireStorM Well-Known Member

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    Msn does not have extention for all countries like Google , MSN has got only a few country domain extention
     
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    I get different results using the different country domain variations.
     
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  6. munt

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    they actually have quite alot..
    but not straight msn.co.uk type domains
    new zealands is xtramsn.co.nz (xtra is nz biggest isp) and aus is ninemsn.com.au
     
    munt, Mar 27, 2006 IP