MSN SERPs in other countries

[Jorge]

The new MSN now detects your IP and feeds you results from the country you are in without giving you the option to change to other countries' results as Google does. This is an SEO nightmare. I'm in Spain and I cannot see the results in Germany or France of our sites in those languages. I can access the US results through our US server but that is it. I can change the language of the interface but the results at least between the US and Spain in English vary greatly. Has anyone run into the same problem?

[dannysullivan]

There should be a Back to search.msn.com link at the bottom of the page you can use to overcome this. Or try http://search.msn.com/?noredir=1. More details here: Redirection.Escaping MSN Search's Country Redirection (http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050202-092508)

[Jorge]

Thanks Danny. You just solved my problem. Just in case anyone doesn't figure it out on their own...If you want to monitor different countries' MSN SERPs simply change the .com with the extension of the country you are interested in:

http://search.msn.com/?noredir=1 for the US
http://search.msn.it/?noredir=1 for Italy
http://search.msn.fr/?noredir=1 for France etc...

Google allows you to see the different country specific SERPs changing your preferences but not how the ads are shown in those countries.

Being as I am in Spain I compared my US SERPs with "real" US SERPs that I got using anonymizer (that is located in the US and allows me to navigate as if I were in San Diego) and discovered new competitors in Adwords. The number of results was also different although the ones you could see were of course the same. I know that the number of results is something that shouldn't be paid attention to but it is strange.