new msn search seems heavy on advertising

[escapeso]

So I am not sure if this is what the new search is going to look like

http://search.msn.com/previewx.aspx?...st=1&noredir=1

But it seems that they have 6 websites per page. And 3 are sponsored sites and the next 3 are 1-3. So it looks like unless you are in the top 3 you dont show up on the first page and even then the sponsered sites are given alot of space at the top.

Kind of stinks I was doing ok in msn had 3 different keywords ranked 1 2 and 7.

MSN doesnt give alot of traffic but every bit counts.

[frobn]

So I am not sure if this is what the new search is going to look like

http://search.msn.com/previewx.aspx?...st=1&noredir=1

But it seems that they have 6 websites per page. And 3 are sponsored sites and the next 3 are 1-3. So it looks like unless you are in the top 3 you dont show up on the first page and even then the sponsered sites are given alot of space at the top.

Kind of stinks I was doing ok in msn had 3 different keywords ranked 1 2 and 7.

MSN doesnt give alot of traffic but every bit counts.

I don't see any change at MSN.com. There are 3 sponsored sites in a shaded area at the top followed by the organic results.

[escapeso]

sorry i posted the wrong link try this one

http://search.msn.com/spresults.aspx...t=10&FORM=POPR

[SEO Jason]

still looks the same to me as it's always been

[escapeso]

Just to make sure this is what im seeing

http://www.escapesomewhere.com/msn.html

6 sites per page. the top 3 are advertisers

[myrealtyfeed]

That's a site preview mode. How do you get those thumbnails to show up? I just get text links with the search result?

[escapeso]

When I click on the second link I posted in the third post in this thread. One window shows up for a second and then it refreshes and the other window comes up.

Thanks cool so this is just another mode. Not how there new search will look.

[judyo]

I also could only get the thumbnails from the link you gave but when I added another search term I got regular results.

[Falcon Living]

I have seen the 6 result pages for just the first page also. I am not sure if that one is only for most popular keywords with lots of ads requested for only. Because the less popular keywords give you the regular 10 searches.

[escapeso]

I only see it for a URL with the spresults.

http://search.msn.com/spresults.asp...nt=10&FORM=POPR

Well thats the url I type in. the page refreshes to

http://search.msn.com/previewx.aspx?...st=1&noredir=1

Which shows me the six pages each with a preview.

On that page if I type in new keywords or leave the same old keywords in and press search the search looks like normal msn with 9 results and no previews.

I came across this while going through my log. When I clicked on pages in my log I kept seeing this wierd page with the six images. It came up repeatedly in my log for awhile.

I was just worried this was something MSN planned on doing in the future since the page is called "MSN Search Preview"

Its kind of wierd. I cant find a way through www.msn.com to find this search.