Comments on: MSN spam to continue says the Live Search Blog http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/msn-admits-clueless-and-ineffective-spamming/ If you've read my articles somewhere on the Internet, expect something different here. Sat, 17 May 2008 03:24:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: The hacker tool MSN-LiveSearch is responsible for brute force attacks http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/msn-admits-clueless-and-ineffective-spamming/#comment-1102 The hacker tool MSN-LiveSearch is responsible for brute force attacks Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:36:44 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/msn-admits-clueless-and-ineffective-spamming/#comment-1102 [...] MSN LiveSearch is well known for spamming, it’s not a big surprise that they support hackers, scrapers and other content [...]

[…] MSN LiveSearch is well known for spamming, it’s not a big surprise that they support hackers, scrapers and other content […]

]]> By: Sebastian http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/msn-admits-clueless-and-ineffective-spamming/#comment-825 Sebastian Mon, 17 Dec 2007 05:43:50 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/msn-admits-clueless-and-ineffective-spamming/#comment-825 Today I found more fake referrers from MSN with a new "referrer URL" <a href="http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=index&scope=&first=0&FORM=PERE" rel="nofollow">http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=index&scope=&first=0&FORM=PERE</a>. There's no reason my site could rank for [index], and I highly doubt that on a Sunday 32 MSN users search for "index" and land on a script URL that captures invalid URIs and redirects such requests to the best matching pages. Not that I did believe the lies that MSN will reduce the spam and that it will be better targeted ... Today I found more fake referrers from MSN with a new “referrer URL” http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=index&scope=&first=0&FORM=PERE. There’s no reason my site could rank for [index], and I highly doubt that on a Sunday 32 MSN users search for “index” and land on a script URL that captures invalid URIs and redirects such requests to the best matching pages. Not that I did believe the lies that MSN will reduce the spam and that it will be better targeted …

]]> By: Tanner Christensen http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/msn-admits-clueless-and-ineffective-spamming/#comment-795 Tanner Christensen Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:43:18 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/msn-admits-clueless-and-ineffective-spamming/#comment-795 MSN has always had some wacky way of going about things. It's no wonder MSN is ranking behind Google and Yahoo for search. MSN has always had some wacky way of going about things. It’s no wonder MSN is ranking behind Google and Yahoo for search.

]]> By: david deangelo http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/msn-admits-clueless-and-ineffective-spamming/#comment-793 david deangelo Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:32:41 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/msn-admits-clueless-and-ineffective-spamming/#comment-793 I actually don't understand what MSN is trying to achieve out of all this. I actually don’t understand what MSN is trying to achieve out of all this.

]]> By: ryanol http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/msn-admits-clueless-and-ineffective-spamming/#comment-792 ryanol Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:32:11 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/msn-admits-clueless-and-ineffective-spamming/#comment-792 I read your post and couldn't help myself. I had to create a cheap Shepard Fairey "obey" knock off. http://www.constantlycomplaining.com/blog/files/imagepicker/r/ryanol/obeymsn.gif I read your post and couldn’t help myself.

I had to create a cheap Shepard Fairey “obey” knock off.

http://www.constantlycomplaining.com/blog/files/imagepicker/r/ryanol/obeymsn.gif

]]> By: Cartoons » Blog Archive » Daily Search Coverage & Link Finds: December 5, 2007 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/msn-admits-clueless-and-ineffective-spamming/#comment-791 Cartoons » Blog Archive » Daily Search Coverage & Link Finds: December 5, 2007 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:59:07 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/msn-admits-clueless-and-ineffective-spamming/#comment-791 [...] MSN spam to continue says the Live Search Blog, sebastians-pamphlets.com [...] […] MSN spam to continue says the Live Search Blog, sebastians-pamphlets.com […]

]]> By: Sebastian http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/msn-admits-clueless-and-ineffective-spamming/#comment-790 Sebastian Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:33:00 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/msn-admits-clueless-and-ineffective-spamming/#comment-790 Look at IncrediBill's piece <a href="http://incredibill.blogspot.com/2007/11/livecoms-search-spam-hysteria-and-area.html">The referrer spam from MSN is just a huge red herring</a>, and <a href="http://www.webshoppehosting.com/weblog/?p=17">this post</a> from an ex-MS employee confirming that MSN does quality control with various user agents and tools from this IP range. At least log all requests from 131.107.0.* because most of them are bogus. If you don't cloak for MSN, just block the IP range, the artificial traffic isn't worth a dime. If they really delist you at Live Search because you've blocked their spambots, who cares, they don't send enough human traffic to compensate the bot load. Look at IncrediBill’s piece The referrer spam from MSN is just a huge red herring, and this post from an ex-MS employee confirming that MSN does quality control with various user agents and tools from this IP range. At least log all requests from 131.107.0.* because most of them are bogus. If you don’t cloak for MSN, just block the IP range, the artificial traffic isn’t worth a dime. If they really delist you at Live Search because you’ve blocked their spambots, who cares, they don’t send enough human traffic to compensate the bot load.

]]> By: SlightlyShadySEO http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/msn-admits-clueless-and-ineffective-spamming/#comment-789 SlightlyShadySEO Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:22:41 +0000 http://sebastians-pamphlets.com/msn-admits-clueless-and-ineffective-spamming/#comment-789 Ugh. So now I get to update cloakers again. I'm starting to think "screw it". I might just goatse all MSN traffic. But I'm also starting to think this isn't so much a standard test, but more of a possible beta for a future(secondary) crawler that's going to be around for a long, long time. Ugh. So now I get to update cloakers again. I’m starting to think “screw it”. I might just goatse all MSN traffic.

But I’m also starting to think this isn’t so much a standard test, but more of a possible beta for a future(secondary) crawler that’s going to be around for a long, long time.

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