Tag Archive for 'live-search'

De Robotorum Exclusionis Protocollo (Updatum)

11Jun08

Google, Yahoo!, Live Search. Amen.
And in case you were wondering about ex-wannabe major search engine Ask: their blog is practically dead. R.I.P.

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The Homer Simpson of search engines

22Dec07

I just love MSN Live Search because… well, no other search engine company out there can screw things up the way Microsoft can.
Yesterday we accidently [sic] began including the links from the ads of Google AdSense customers.
D’OH!

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MS Live Search hitting web sites with fake referer information

02Nov07

Maybe you’ve already heard of this, since it’s not very recent news, but I thought it was worth mentioning because it hasn’t got the exposure it deserves, plus it appears it’s still going on.
I had been spotting dozens of strange organic search referers in a web site’s stats lately: extremely generic keywords, that do occur […]