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Alden Bates' WeblogFeigning normality since 1973Alden defends Microsoft shockerFiled in: Website Management. I noticed some odd things about the hits supposedly coming from Microsoft's Live Search recently. First there's a hit from msnbot for page X. This is followed by another hit on page X, from a Microsoft IP address with the referrer set to a search.live.com results page and with an IE7 user agent, however the second agent only loads CSS and javascript, no images. Despite the referrer, my web page doesn't appear in the results for the search term given. One hit, for instance, was for TSV 48 for the search term pertwee, yet TSV 48 isn't listed on that search results page (it's on about page 11). The only clue was a parameter on the referring URL: FORM=LIVSOP. Googling revealed the truth: msndude says: While there are a lot of complaints in that thread, what Microsoft appear to be doing is testing for spammy pages set up to redirect non-bot visitors to other, less desirable pages. It seems to me that there's a lot of blaming of Microsoft, when people should be blaming the spammers. I fully approve of MS keeping their results free of spam. Edit: Oh, and Google seem to be doing it too. Posted October 26, 2007 11:14 PM CommentsOK, it gets kinda silly when you get 30 of these in the space of a few minutes. :P Posted by: Alden Bates | October 29, 2007 3:32 PM Post a comment | |
So, it's not just me. That's a relief.
I've seen a ton of hits from search.live.com on my first name in the past two weeks or so. And I couldn't figure out what the deal was. (Especially as putting only my first name into search.live.com didn't bring my webpage up within like the first thirty or forty links.)
I'm going to keep an eye on it, see if anything changes in the next week or so.
Posted by: Allyn | October 28, 2007 3:00 PM