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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.

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01 · 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.

Fewer trackers than MSNNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

12 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.

  1. 01
    AOL aol.com Top 1K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare AOL with MSN →
  2. 02
    Google google.com Top 100 German No trackers

    Google

    search engine by Google LLC

    Compare Google with MSN →
  3. 03
    Onet onet.pl Top 1K Polish No trackers

    Onet – Jesteś na bieżąco

    Onet: codzienne źródło informacji milionów Polaków - wiadomości z kraju i ze świata 24/7, pogoda, sport, biznes, moto, rozrywka. Bądź na bieżąco z Onet!

    Compare Onet with MSN →
  4. 04
    Digg digg.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Digg - News, before it trends

    See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.

    Compare Digg with MSN →
  5. 05
    Wirtualna Polska wp.pl Top 1K Polish No trackers

    Wirtualna Polska - Wszystko co ważne - www.wp.pl

    Nowoczesne medium, porządkuje świat i dostarcza angażujące informacje, rozrywkę i usługi w czasie rzeczywistym. Przewodnik Polaków w wirtualnym świecie.

    Compare Wirtualna Polska with MSN →
  6. 06
    sina.cn Top 10K No trackers

    手机新浪网

    手机新浪网是新浪网的手机门户网站,为亿万用户打造一个手机联通世界的超级平台,提供24小时全面及时的中文资讯,内容覆盖国内外突发新闻事件、体坛赛事、娱乐时尚、产业资讯、实用信息等。手机新浪网触屏版 - sina.cn

    Compare sina.cn with MSN →
  7. 07
    Nate nate.com Top 10K No trackers

    South Korean web portal

    Compare Nate with MSN →
  8. 08
    o2.pl Polish No trackers

    o2 - Blisko Ludzi

    o2 to serwis blisko ludzi. Pieniądze, zakupy, rozrywka, porady, wiadomości lokalne. Wszystko, czym żyje Polska!

    Compare o2.pl with MSN →
  9. 09
    Mail.ru mail.ru Top 100 English No trackers

    Russian web portal

    Compare Mail.ru with MSN →
  10. 10
    goal.com Top 10K English No trackers

    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.

    Compare goal.com with MSN →
  11. 11
    Seznam seznam.cz Top 1K Czech No trackers

    Seznam – najdu tam, co neznám

    Nejnavštěvovanější český internetový portál nabízející vyhledávač, e-mail, aktuální zprávy, předpověď počasí a odkazy, které se mohou hodit.

    Compare Seznam with MSN →
  12. 12
    Microsoft Bing bing.com Top 100 English No trackers

    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.

    Compare Microsoft Bing with MSN →

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

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
63 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

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