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Receives its search results from a variety of sources. The "Featured Sites" section results are provided by MSN's sponsors. The results in the "Web Directory Topics" and "Web Directory Sites" sections come from Looksmart, MSN's primary provider. To get a top ranking you need to participate in the LookSmart pay-per-click program, so submission occurs at Looksmart.

In some cases LookSmart does not have sufficient results, so Inktomi "Web Pages" results follow and thus your "free" indexed entries may rank well. At the top of the "Web Directory Sites" section, you can click on a link to view the 10 most popular sites provided by Direct Hit. The "Web Pages" section is provided by Inktomi. Although you can submit directly to MSN, you would be better off to directly submit to Looksmart and Inktomi.

The top search results are generally in Looksmart sequence. Since Looksmart is a PPC (pay-per-click) directory, if your account balance falls to $0 your ranking in this section of MSN will vanish. This means that the rankings in MSN are not stable on a day-to-day basis and that you should consider paying into the Looksmart program.

The thing to remember is that you must have suitable URL content and be engineered to beat your competition within Fast before you register your pages. Just registering with Fast does not assure a suitable ranking.

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