MSN search

I've been using the beta version of Microsoft's new MSN search.

Frankly, I'm impressed. And not just because my own sites do well in the rankings.

I've only been using it fulltime for a few days, but so far it is outdoing google. There are some searches where Google returns better results, and others where MSN returns better results. Considering that MSN Search is still in beta, this is pretty impressive.

If MSN Search returns better results, Google will have to tweak its algorithm. Quite a few of us think Google has gotten lazy about maintaining vigilance of its results' relevance.

Bleg

Does anyone know of a company that does free web hosting?

That is, I have a few domain names that I would like to host...but they aren't worth paying $8 or so a month to host.

Popups would be okay, as would banner advertising...as long as it's not ridiculous.

New auction site

BusinessPundit writes up Jonathan Ruff's new auction site, Jittery.

How do you compete with eBay? I can't imagine how he thinks he will get the traffic, but good luck to him. He seems to have a number of interesting ideas.