MSN launches revamped search engine

Hey, I thought Gates promised no tricks: Search 'Dilbert coffee mugs' on Yahoo and top entry is shoplet.com, a seller of dilbert coffee mugs. Shoplet don't advertise that term on yahoo (or Google where they're also number 1) because they don't need to.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=dilbert+coffee+mugs&ei=UTF-8&fr=fp-tab-web-t&cop=mss&tab=

Now do the same on MSN.com and shoplet.com is only listed as a paid "Sponsored listing". They are completely missing from the actual results (at least the first 150 I checked).

It looks like Microsoft filter out commercial sites from the search results so that those sites have to pay to appear in the listing!

What a scam.; Posted by: Nigel Johnstone Posted on: 07/01/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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MSNBot lives Nigel Johnstone | 07/01/04

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I think you mean to say... tic swayback | 07/01/04

it's worthless to try tic.. Monkey_MCSE | 07/01/04

Now that is funny! Patrick Jones | 07/01/04

It crashed on me OhMyGosh | 07/01/04

Biased Search Results? claytonmuhler | 07/01/04

All hype, nothing to see here Oscar_Goldman | 07/01/04

Messed-up priorities.. jpolicke@... | 07/01/04

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