MSN clearly has the freshest index of major search engines

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One of the factors that seperate great search engines from also rans, is comprehensiveness. When I search, I like to assume that the broadest possible selection of websites is available to me. These days, this seems to be most true of MSN, whose tireless bots patrol the internet day and night looking for fresh content to be neatly indexed along with old websites.

Google, for lack of any better term, Sandboxes, these same sites, and this has hurt the comprehensiveness of their index. They will index a websites new pages, and even show them using the “site:” command, but unfortunately, those pages will never see the light of day in their fresh search index. This affects the new websites, because a great percentage of the internet’s search traffic is not there to see them.

Many would argue that MSN’s algo is immature in comparison to Google’s, and undoubtedly they have a point. However, this is to be expected with such new technology. But at least I’ll give MSN credit for trying to index the whole internet in a timely fashion. For whatever reason, Google has conceded the comprehensive title, not even bothering to update the number of pages index on their main page anymore.

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