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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

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.

  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
    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 →
  3. 03
    Mail.ru mail.ru Top 100 English No trackers

    Russian web portal

    Compare Mail.ru with MSN →
  4. 04
    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 →
  5. 05
    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 →
  6. 06
    GitHub github.blog Top 10K English No trackers

    Home - The GitHub Blog

    Updates, ideas, and inspiration from GitHub to help developers build and design software.

    Compare GitHub with MSN →
  7. 07
    British Broadcasting Corporation bbc.com Top 1K English No trackers

    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

    Compare British Broadcasting Corporation with MSN →
  8. 08
    GhanaWeb ghanaweb.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Challenge Validation

    Ghanaian news and opinion site

    Compare GhanaWeb with MSN →
  9. 09
    Fortune fortune.com Top 10K English No trackers

    Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News

    Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.

    Compare Fortune 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
9,214
Vector
384-d
Query
31 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

FortuneGhanaWebBritish Broadcasting CorporationGitHubMicrosoft Binggoal.comMail.ruDiggAOL

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CDN
  • Akamai header akamai-grn: 0.89621302.1793956255.2c3d2e87
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Email hosting
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DNS hosting
  • Azure DNS NS ns3-204.azure-dns.org
  • NS1 NS dns3.p08.nsone.net
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

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