MSN was second biggest English-language news site on Earth in September 2022

Microsoft makes the Windows operating organisation that promotes its browser Border, which in plow advertises its news vehicle MSN. That trickle-down of Microsoft products is one of the ways in which the tech giant has managed to get msn.com to the coveted number-2 spot on the "most visited sites in the world, as of September 2022" list (via Press Gazette).

The only thing able to trounce out msn.com was a tag-team of BBCs: bbc.co.united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and bbc.com, which combined managed a whopping 1.1 billion visits in September, while msn.com "merely" managed 960.5 million. CNN came in at a distant third with 583.8 meg visits.

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Every bit mentioned in a higher place, it's non like MSN rose to that spot all by its lonesome. It had the ability of Windows and, by extension, its default browser Border to help claim the number 2 spot. If you lot've always looked at Edge's default landing page, you'll detect it's filled with fiddling boxes promoting stories about celebrities, movies, politics, and everything else under the sun. That's all MSN. And you landing in that location is part of how information technology gets its gigantic viewership figures.

MSN is a large-enough deal for Microsoft that it's helped spawn the likes of Microsoft Outset and got a non-and so-indirect shoutout during Microsoft'southward well-nigh recent quarterly earnings report. In that report, wherein the visitor stated information technology managed $45.3 billion in acquirement for the quarter, it was mentioned that "search and news advertising revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs increased xl%." In other words, Bing and MSN were big business for Microsoft, building off of Border and Windows as part of one large, synergistic family.

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