Is it possible that MSN was slightly crippled by the whole chat room fiasco that happened about a year or so ago? I'm not sure if you recall, but they shut down most of their chat rooms because of predators and pediophiles hooking up with kids.

The other thing is that when you talk to anyone about search engines and which they prefer, they almost always say google or Yahoo, rarely MSN. I wonder if this has something to do with relevancy of search results or if their site's just a bit too busy, not sure. I can tell you that I personally love google because all I want is a search page and no other crap floating around on the page. If I want news, I'll watch news or read a paper.

Just my $.02 CDN, worth very little abroad.