msn.com
MSN
Who runs MSN, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest web portal alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- AOL
Measured from MSN’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit MSN01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs MSN
MSN msn.com
Wikidata: collection of Internet sites by Microsoft
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What MSN tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
5 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 8 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to MSN
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to MSN, thumbs down if it isn’t.
9 of the 60 sites closest to MSN match.
We can’t read msn.com’s homepage (too little text on the homepage), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
- 01
News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com
Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.
Very close - 02
Digg - News, before it trends
See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.
Very close - 03
Russian web portal
Very close - 04
Soccer News, Live Scores, Results & Transfers | Goal.com US
The latest soccer news, live scores, results, rumors, transfers, fixtures, tables and player profiles from around the world, including Premier League.
Very close - 05
Search - Microsoft Bing
Search with Microsoft Bing and use the power of AI to find information, explore webpages, images, videos, maps, and more. A smart search engine for the forever curious.
Very close - 06
Home - The GitHub Blog
Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.
Very close - 07
BBC Home | Breaking News, World News, US News, Sports, Business, Innovation, Climate, Culture, Travel, Video & Audio
Visit BBC for trusted reporting on the latest world and US news, sports, business, climate, innovation, culture and much more
Very close - 08
Challenge Validation
Ghanaian news and opinion site
Very close - 09
Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles MSN’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones MSN uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what MSN adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 9 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 29 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to MSN’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Analytics
- Comscore page source: .scorecardresearch.com
- CDN
- Akamai header akamai-grn: 0.89621302.1793956255.2c3d2e87
- Azure Front Door header x-msedge-ref: 2c3d2e87 | 6aed999f30b94cb894947f634ba76114|AFD:6aed999f30b…
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT v=spf1 include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:spf-a.hotmail.com i…
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=KaParXxs1OHDy7o8CMbPpHBN-2m_mzwdPqKMMQ…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=snWRecgPSoBabrLXKCz4W8SZYabue7JrtXQM36fq6PE
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=q715hqwb3sc3mkxajcokcksu21c8r2
Sitemaps
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What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Meta Business Suite 8/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on msn.com 8/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on msn.com 7/20
- GlobalSign 7/20
- React · not on msn.com 7/20
- Next.js · not on msn.com 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on msn.com 5/20
- Microsoft 365 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on msn.com 4/20
- Taboola · not on msn.com 3/20
- Google Fonts · not on msn.com 3/20
- Comscore 3/20
- Google Analytics · not on msn.com 3/20
- Google Workspace · not on msn.com 3/20
- nginx · not on msn.com 3/20