MSN offers preview of new improved search engine
Howard Lake | 12 October 2004 | News
MSN’s long-awaited search engine is getting closer to launch, and is now offering previews of its search technology, so you can check how well your charity’s Web site will rank.
While Google still dominates online searching and promotion, there are a few other search engines that charities and other organisations should pay attention to. MSN, owned by Microsoft, would certainly be one of these, and might become more important when it launches its improved search engine.
You can get an idea of what the new MSN search engine will deliver from the company’s preview version.
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Try out the various keywords that you want your charity’s site to be found under. How do they perform? If you’re not satisifed, MSN encourages you to make suggestions for improvements to them.
We were pleased to see that on a search on “fundraising”, UK Fundraising managed second position, out of 9,338,721 listings related to fundraising. We are currently second on Google for the same search.
About Howard Lake
Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale.
He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.