MSN has taken pains to keep up with Google and other sites like Yahoo when it comes to drawing in people who have the need to search for something. This can be a great, free tool that you can use when you have a number without a name. There are many reasons why you may need to know who owns a number, but none of those reasons will make a difference in how you go about your search. All that matters is that the number comes up somewhere to answer your questions.
You can always start with the advanced search that MSN Live Search offers. It is not as extensive as the options that you would have on some other search engines, but it can be a powerful tool none the less. You can eliminate terms and things that you know are going to be in the way of getting the right results. When you learn how to narrow down what you hope to find, you can then be sure you are only getting what you want when you press the search button.
If you aren’t sure what you want to add or exclude using the MSN Live Search advanced feature, do a general search. You may soon see some of the things that come up that are not helping you in your search. Those are the terms that you can eliminate. You can even put things like -.com if you are getting too many commercial results and not enough of the sites that might be relevant to what you need to find.
Your results with MSN Live Search and the other search engines will vary. Sometimes, the information that you seek won’t come up because it is simply not online. Other times, there are just too many different results that come up and the one that you need is buried so far down that you give up before you actually get to it. When you can’t find what you need on a search, remember that it might be elsewhere. Search engines cannot find everything, even when it seems like they do a darn good job of doing so in all other cases.