I just began submitting my artilce to directories this week. I saw an experiment going on here.
http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/...xperiment.html
Thought I would share my findings thus far.
http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q...=51&FORM=PERE3
I have two backlinks listed in msn. one from articleexpress and one from ezinearticles.