Recent Posts Tagged With 'msn'

• As if sloppy social media users ain’t bad enough … search engines support traffic theft

  Posted on Monday October 26th, 2009 at 14:18 in google, yahoo, spam, msn, twitter, social web, search quality, risky linkage, uri shortening

  Prepare for a dose of techy tin foil hattery. [Skip rant] Again, I’m going to rant about a nightmare that Twitter & Co created with their crappy, thoughtless and shortsighted software designs: URI shorteners (yup, it’s URI, not URL)....

• Full disclosure @ FTC

  Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 07:00 in google, blogging, yahoo, msn, crap, technorati, twitter

  Trying to avoid an $11,000 fine in the Federal Trade Commission’s war on bloggers: When I write about praise search engines, that’s totally paid-for because I’ve received free search results upfront. Copyright © 2009 Sebastian`...

• Search engines should make shortened URIs somewhat persistent

  Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 12:29 in google, SEO, yahoo, msn, crap, twitter, social web, redirects, risky linkage, uri shortening

  URI shorteners are crap. Each and every shortened URI expresses a design flaw. All –or at least most– public URI shorteners will shut down sooner or later, because shortened URIs are hard to monetize. Making use of 3rd party URI shortener...

• Save bandwidth costs: Dynamic pages can support If-Modified-Since too

  Posted on Tuesday February 19th, 2008 at 13:35 in web development, yahoo, msn

  When search engine crawlers burn way too much of your bandwidth, this post is for you. Crawlers sent out by major search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN/Live Search) support conditional GETs, that means they don’t fetch your pages if those didn&...

• Update your crawler detection: MSN/Live Search announces msnbot/1.1

  Posted on Tuesday February 12th, 2008 at 12:41 in msn, analytics, cloaking, robots.txt, crawler directives

  Fabrice Canel from Live Search announces significant improvements of their crawler today. The very much appreciated changes are: HTTP compression The revised msnbot supports gzip and deflate as defined by RFC 2616 (sections 14.11 and 14.39). Micros...

• The hacker tool MSN-LiveSearch is responsible for brute force attacks

  Posted on Friday February 1st, 2008 at 09:36 in msn, crap, testing, .htaccess, search quality

  A while ago I’ve staged a public SEO contest, asking whether the 401 HTTP response code prevents from search engine indexing or not. Password protected site areas should be safe from indexing, because legit search engine crawlers do not submit...

• My plea to Google - Please sanitize your REP revamps

  Posted on Thursday January 3rd, 2008 at 18:02 in web development, msn, microformats, nofollow, robots.txt, crawler directives, robots meta tags, x-robots-tag, xml-sitemaps

  Standardization of REP tags as robots.txt directives This draft is kinda request for comments for search engine staff and uber search geeks interested in the progress of Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) standardization (actually, every search engine m...

• MSN spam to continue says the Live Search Blog

  Posted on Wednesday December 5th, 2007 at 02:58 in spam, msn, crap, cloaking, webspam, spoofing, search quality

  It seems MSN/LiveSearch has tweaked their rogue bots and continues to spam innocent Web sites just in case they could cloak. I see a rant coming, but first the facts and news. Since August 2007 MSN runs a bogus bot faking a human visitor coming from ...

• Microsoft funding bankrupt Live Search experiment with porn spam

  Posted on Friday November 16th, 2007 at 07:20 in spam, msn, crap, search quality, crawler directives

  If only this headline would be linkbait … of course it’s not sarcastic. Rumors are out that Microsoft will launch a porn affiliate programm soon. The top secret code name for this project is “pornbucks”, but analysts say that...