I noticed this week that often when someone uses MSN’s Live Search to land on post here, the searches don’t make a lot of sense. They are often very short and general. The same searches on Google would return millions of results and probably have any pages from here way down the list. For example here are three separate Live Search terms from this past week and a link to the post the searcher landed on.
movie Are We really Made of Corn?
heart A Fit Heart
report Better Diet May Aid the Economy
Live Search must work differently than Google, but still…. Doesn’t it seem odd that such general search terms would land on these posts?
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Hi Will,
While some of your searches are funny (like how do I get my wife to turn out the lights), this one is interesting. I’m pretty sure that searching for “movie” on msn wouldn’t list your post… I wonder why you don’t get the full search term string, if it’s a bug or on purpose, and if on purpose, why? Interesting indeed.
~ Steve, the trade show guru
PS. I just tried searching for “movie” on MSN, and the top ten are generic movie websites as expected, expect for the Simpsons movie at #4, a movie called TEETH at #5?, “Transformers” made #8 and “Inconvenient Truth” made #10. Wonder what that means…
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I know it is odd, Steve. I think you are correct that maybe it is not showing me the full search string. I even looked at the raw logs for that day and it shows as “movie” and landing on the King Corn post.
Someone told me that with a MSN account you can do some limiting things on your searches so that when you type in “Movie”, there are already some limiters in place. That seems strange to me, but I never use MSN. Someone else said that if you do a search on MSN and then drill down on the results, only the drill down search term will show in the log. Again I don’t know, but this latter one makes more sense.
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