MSN a Complete Waste of Time For Consumers Seeking Real Estate in Atlanta

Unbelievable would be what I thought when I first saw it. Poor business decision, if that's what it is would be the reality. You see, MSN has some very unusual search results here in Atlanta. Typically, the most frequently searched term by consumers looking for real estate will be "city real estate" and in Atlanta, MSN returns the same website something on the order of 498 out of the first 500 search results! Here's a screen shot:

O.K. So I guess it's not exactly the same result - they are all subdomains of the same website. Now if you were a consumer searching for Atlanta homes for sale using the most used keyword phrase, do you think it might be a good idea to serve up the same website over and over again like this? Seriously.

Here is the search result so you can see for yourself - my understanding is that not everyone will see it, but, I asked quite a few people from around the country and in Canada and just about all of them see it. This is outrageous AND it serves as a warning as to the credibility of their search results in general. For me, it simply confirms the idea that my search engine of choice remains Google. It's not just MSN that fools around in one way or another. Take yahoo for example. They have a partnership with Prudential using Prudentials data to populate their real estate search results. That's not quite as egregious as MSN's malfeasance, but, certainly does, at least for me, call into question what else is going on that we are not aware of.

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