MSN no longer using Zeal?

[Westech]

It looks like MSN is no longer using Zeal in their results. One of my sites was the number 1 result on MSN for my keywords (it was under the DIRECTORY RESULTS section of the results).

It's now down to #8 because there is no DIRECTORY RESULTS section anymore. It shows up #8 under WEBPAGE RESULTS.

I've done a few different searches, and it seems that msn search is now only listing SPONSORED RESULTS and WEBSITE RESULTS. DIRECTORY RESULTS are gone. :(

Can anyone else confirm this?

[Chris]

MSN stopped using Looksmart on some searches as long as 6 months ago. It seems they have been slowly phasing it out. I have no idea if they're "finished" now or not but what you had happen doesn't suprise me.

[Jaffro]

So how do we get into MSN search now? is ther any free way at all?

[Chris]

They currently use Inktomi, but not for long.

MSN should soon launch their own search engine, they've been crawling the web as MSNbot since last summer.

[flyingpylon]

I think I saw an article somewhere stating that Microsoft would launch their search engine in July.

[michael_gersitz]

Great! This is how I like it!

[pas]

Probably this article:
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/03/20/1233240.shtml?tid=109&tid=126&tid=187&tid=95&tid=98&tid=99