How do you think msn stacks up agaisnt google and yahoo? I know when i want to search something, i dont think of msn. Im more likely to check google and then yahoo.
MSN is pretty complacent in where it is right now. I don't really sense it competing much with Yahoo and Google. But truth be told, Google wins over the two search engines by a mile. It would be really hard for MSN to step up... but that is, if they plan on stepping up. They don't seem to be making aggressive moves anymore. The last update I heard from MSN was the windows live messenger update and that's it.
MSN has very low market share. i had my site on front page of MSN for a KW which would make me pretty decent money with google for same ranking, but with MSN i hardly had any visitors. yahoo is second best.
Google is the best hands down. I have never used another search engine (well at least for the last 7,8 years). With all the respect I got for Microsoft for making one of the most user friendly OS'es ever, I think they should stick with making operating systems and softwares and not try to to take over every market there is by making products like "Ms Dewey", "xBox", "MSN" etc...