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.
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
Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos
Latest news coverage, email, free stock quotes, live scores and video are just the beginning. Discover more every day at Yahoo!
Very close - 03
Rediff.com: News | Rediffmail | Stock Quotes | Rediff Gurus
✔Read Latest India News ✔Get Realtime Stock Quotes ✔See Live Cricket Scores ✔Log in to Rediffmail ✔Expert advice on career, personal finance and relationships
Very close - 04
Home – Lycos
search engine and web portal
Very close - 05
Digg - News, before it trends
See what's next in AI before it trends. Digg watches the people who move first.
Very close - 06
NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts
NewsBreak is the best local source for news, videos, and information on safety, accidents, sports, business, celebrity updates, stock market trends, and more.
Very close - 07
Latest News, Breaking News Today, LIVE News, Top News Headlines, India News, Viral Video, Cricket News, Sports News, Entertainment News, Business, Health, Lifestyle News & LIVE Updates| India.com
India.com Breaking News: Live News Updates from across India and the world. India.Com is your gateway to India for latest News, explainers, viral videos, cricket, sports, entertainment, business, health, lifestyle from India and around the world on India.com.
Very close - 08
nine.com.au -- the new ninemsn - News, Sport, TV, Entertainment, Lifestyle | Latest Breaking News Headlines from Australia and the world
Meet the new nine.com.au. Get the latest news, sport, TV, travel, fashion, fitness, recipes, celebrity news and exclusive content, all for free at nine.com.au, the home of Nine
Very close - 09
News and Advice on the World's Latest Innovations | ZDNET - ZDNET
see all latest
Very close - 10
International Business, World News & Global Stock Market Analysis
CNBC International is the world leader for news on business, technology, China, trade, oil prices, the Middle East and markets.
Very close - 11
News & Email at blue News | Switzerland, Sports, People, International
News from Switzerland and around the world covering sports, politics, entertainment, business & digital — Live streams – Webmail login Bluewin email
Very close - 12
Boston.com: Local breaking news, sports, weather, and things to do
What Boston cares about right now: Get breaking updates on news, sports, and weather. Local alerts, things to do, and more on Boston.com.
Very close - 13
HuffPost - Breaking News, Politics, Entertainment & Opinion
Read the latest U.S. and world news, politics, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion pieces from HuffPost’s trusted team of journalists.
Very close - 14
Breaking News, Latest News and Videos | CNN
View the latest news and breaking news today for U.S., world, weather, entertainment, politics and health at CNN.com.
Very close - 15
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 - 16
International Business Times - Business News, Financial news
International Business Times is the leading provider of business news and financial news from the US and around the world.
Very close - 17
Mashable
Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company.
Very close - 18
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 - 19
FanSided Sports News & Updates: NFL, NBA, MLB, College & More
FanSided - Your go-to source for sports, entertainment, and lifestyle. Stay updated on news, analysis, and fandom across a range of topics.
Very close - 20
TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.
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 = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,193
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 25 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
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