Live Search proves they don't understand relevance

The MSN Live Search blog has just published a post about how the new index has increased relevance and is far superior to the old MSN.

We eat, live and breathe ideas and technology that makes our relevance better. Having worked on this release for a little over 9 months we could not be more excited about the relevance of our new engine. From our metrics, and more importantly our usage as customers, our new engine is so far superior to our old one. Consider this post a little tour guide, if you will, of our new engine and the things you might notice when you use it.

The only problem is that they point to the search results for Microsoft taco truck as an example of a search they carry “good” results for. If you check the results the first is a made for adsense spam parked domain. Oops.

They point to Chowhound as a good result so why is it only listed at number 6 when Google has it at number 1?

C’mon Microsoft there must be a better example to use than that!

BY Patrick Altoft AT 9:59am ON Wednesday, 3 October 2007

Patrick Altoft is Director of Search at Branded3 and has worked in the SEO industry for over 10 years. With experience across some of the worlds largest brands as well as startup businesses Patrick is well known in the industry and speaks regularly at the major SEO conferences and events. Follow Patrick on Twitter or Google+