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July 25, 2006
MSN Better Than Google and Yahoo (!)
In The Freshness of Web Search Engine Databases, 32 Journal of Information Science 131 (2006), Dirk Lewandowski, Henry Wahlig and Gunnar Meyer-Bautor measured the frequency with which Google, Yahoo and MSN updated their databases. Thirty-eight (38) websites that were updated daily were analysed in a 6 week time-spam. The authors found that Google performs best overall with the most pages updated on a daily basis, but only MSN is able to update all pages within a time-span of less than 20 days. Both other engines have outliers that are older.
From the abstract:
In terms of indexing patterns, we find different approaches at the different engines. While MSN shows clear update patterns, Google shows some outliers and the update process of the Yahoo index seems to be quite chaotic. Implications are that the quality of different search engine indices varies and more than one engine should be used when searching for current content.
Time to bookmark MSN! [JH]
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I have tested MSN and it indexes new sites much more faster. http://myphone.com.my has been indexed in MSN within a week while I am still waiting for Google and DMOZ for about a month and a half.
Posted by: Melvin | Aug 9, 2006 8:40:54 AM
