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"Weiqi, try google 'IIOP.NET' and 'TAO'." Dan shouted at me as I entered OCI North one day last week. (Or was it this Monday? I don't remember exactly.)

I knew why. I did a live blog of one of Dan's talks about IIOP.NET and TAO a few days earlier.

So I sat down and did the search. As I expected, the blog showed up on the first screenful of results. It ranked the fifth or sixth. "It was number one when I did the search," said Dan, a little bit disappointed that I did not get to see my own blog as the "I'm Feeling Lucky" result.

I said to Dan, "Let's try MSN." I installed the CustomizeGoogle Firefox extension, which gives me the ability to search some of the other engines with a single click from Google's results page.

MSN did better. The blog is ranked number two there, right below the IIOP.NET home page. "That's fair." I said.

Well, it's another few days now. Being the curious kind, I kept an eye on the rankings of that blog entry on Google as well as MSN. And the result surprised me: my blog entry has dropped off Google's radar screen, while it has reached number one on MSN:

This is not the first time that I've noticed MSN Search seems to return more relevant results than Google Search. And I find myself clicking on the "MSN" link on the customized Google search screen more often lately.

What is your experience?