"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote in message
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> Harps wrote:
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>> After observing the posts in this newsgroup for a few months now I have
>> realised that most SEO efforts are targeted towards google. Obviously,
>> they have around 39% of the search market followed by Yahoo! who have
>> around 35% and I think MSN has around 15%.
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>
> That might be the statistics in the US. Google dominate with a much larger
> margin.
>
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>> With everyone tailoring their sites for the google spiders, do many SEO's
>> worry about getting good SERPs in Yahoo!, MSN etc? Or are the algo's for
>> each search engine similar?
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>
> Google is often mentioned as if it is the gold standard. If you do well in
> Google, any variations of the other algorithm will somehow assimilate.
>
> However, let us wait for the days when MSN search moderates results, e.g.
> panelise sites that contain the word 'linux' many times.
>
>
>> I would of thought that with Windows Vista coming out soon with a search
>> field in the toolbar in IE, that ranking high in MSN would be a priority.
>>
>> Comments?
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>
> Very right. I commented on this strategy before -- a strategy which I
> consider to be exploitation of a monopoly. Last month I had more hits from
> MSNBot than I had from Googlebot, so they have put a lot of money into
> power and bandwidth.
>
> Don't forget that IE7 will only be compatible with Windows XP or later
> (recently announced). Most businesses still use Windows 2000 and this will
> motivate them to upgrade to Firefox. Of course, being narrow-minded as
> some
> of them might be, they will only realise that better browsers then IE6 are
> out there once they see their mates using IE7.
>
> CSS will finally be capable of being used at full capacity (without having
> ~80 of users see a corrupted page layout).
Thanks for your insights Roy...
>
> Roy
>
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> Roy S. Schestowitz
> http://Schestowitz.com
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