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Cincinnati, Ohio - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - May 2, 2006 - Google, Yahoo!, MSN.com, Ask.com and three other search engines have been evaluated on relevancy and other factors to determine which search engine delivered the most relevant results over a broad range of searches.

Web marketing research and search engine optimization firm, Intralink’s study was based on several factors, such as exact match relevancy, failure rate, freshness of content and performance when doing difficult searches. Exact matches on the first page of a search result, even with a limited number of results returned, gained the highest score.

While relevancy is largely in the eye of the beholder, the study does make clear that the top search engines consistently outperform some of the newer players in the market. The most surprising discovery was how well MSN and Google performed in exact matches.

The study grew out of a set of tools Intralink uses for Web marketing research and search engine optimization.

Intralink, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, plans to update the report every three months and will provide some ongoing results to the public before final publication of the next study due in mid-July. The next study will drop two of the search engines and add two others, including A9.

To view the results of the study, please visit: www.seoresourcecenter.com.

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