Well I don't know if we can talk about secrets here, but yes, that's what I observe as well.
MSN is often strange as far as SERPs, for example
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=phpbb+seo returns first
http://downloads.phpbb-seo.com being newer than
www.phpbb-seo.com
What's funny is that the first result on the www phpBB SEO domain is a meta tag topic, not even the release thread (the most linked), which to me as user, is a bit odd for such a general query.
I think that on this query, returning the phpBB SEO home would be more suitable, at least for the first result on the phpBB SEO domain.
But ho well, this is msn ...
Right now, the link: command still dose not work :
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=link%3Amsn.com
Still
the same bug on the phpBB forum search query :
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=phpbb+forum
And so on ...
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