MSN Info

Search optimization : MSN Info

Microsoft's Live search engine, launched in September known as MSN Search

Growth : 2.5 percent over the past year, according to a Feb. 28 Nielsen//NetRatings report.

# 643 million searches in January .

# Google's 40.6 percent growth

# Yahoo's nearly 29 percent traffic increase over the same period.

# Less than 9 percent of searches are performed on Microsoft.

# Google's share has more than 53 percent

# Yahoo has nearly 23 percent of the market.