Microsoft's Live Search, formerly known as MSN Search, was significantly upgraded at the beginning of October 2007. The improvements in their search results are so breath-taking that we were compelled to ask ourselves, "Why are we still using Google for site search?"

It's not just a matter of preferring one search engine over another. Google has made it increasingly impossible for people to find most of the content on the Web by dividing the Web into two parts: the elite, favored pages and the pages in Google's now hidden Supplemental Results Index.

Google has admitted to using its trademark PageRank technology as the chief dividing line between pages that are included in the Main Web Index (the "favored" index) and pages that are trapped in the penalty zone-like Supplemental Results Index.

In September 2007 Google removed the "Supplemental Results" label from its search results because many Webmasters, savvy to Google's Web Apartheid, had complained about the unfairness of Google's search results. In a blatant attempt to deceive people into thinking that Google was improving its search results, the search engine simply stopped telling people that many pages were "Supplemental".

Why should we care about whether a page is Supplemental? Because if you search only this site for content that is unique to one specific page in the Supplemental Results Index, Google will show you OTHER pages first.

Xenite.Org has been fortunate enough to receive many inbound links from other sites, and Google has accordingly awarded about 1/3 of our pages with enough PageRank to be included in the Main Web Index (note: this is only an estimate and is not confirmed by Google). The remaining approximately 2/3 of our pages are Supplemental Results.

If it were possible for you to find Supplemental pages in a search of the Xenite.Org Web site when you know what you want to find, we would be able to accept the Web Apartheid that Google has imposed upon the Web. But because their site search misleads searchers about the relevance of pages to very specific queries, it is just not in your best interests or ours for Xenite to continue using Google as a site search provider.

Tests have indicated to us that Microsoft's Live Search provides a much better experience than Google's search. Microsoft does not appear to practice Web Apartheid. Microsoft appears to let every Web page rank naturally regardless of whether it has accrued anything like Google's internal PageRank estimates.

Since people do use our site search page, we feel it is important to provide those searchers with the best, most reliable search technology available. In today's Web, that is the Microsoft Live Search engine.