I think that is a big part of it. If they only cleaned them up then they would stand a better chance. Of course their search results are not as good as the others at least from what I have found.
There are lots of theories why msn spiders faster and more ofter then other search engines. I believe they are still optimising the current algorithm before applying it to all the webisite data the have obtained
I agree, but I think sometime in the near future MSN will make it difficult to get ranks they way they are now.
Something looks strange to my site. Indexed page Google: 16,400 Yahoo : 124 MSN : 410 Link Popularity Google : 37 Yahoo : 327 MSN : 1,503 Anyone could give me some explain about this. cheers, Sxperm
MSN link algo is slightly different than google and yahoo, but to see how many duplicate links are counted go to last page of display of link results, and check how much really is links. About page indexed google indexs slowly and if found to have crap then just indexing goes here and there, be watchfull Sreeni