BillyS
msg:3292473 | 11:53 am on Mar 25, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Same here, blank page.
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readingonly
msg:3292569 | 1:50 pm on Mar 25, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Try linkdomain:example.com. This is working for some of my domains... sometimes.
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crobb305
msg:3292607 | 2:54 pm on Mar 25, 2007 (gmt 0) |
blank page
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Finalclue
msg:3293593 | 7:12 pm on Mar 26, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Hasen't anyone had a closer look of what this could be?
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gndv
msg:3293646 | 8:09 pm on Mar 26, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Was concerned they banned my IP at first ;) Regular searches and "site:" searches still working. Haven't played around with others yet. Glad to hear it's not me. -GNDV
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Algebrator
msg:3293753 | 10:28 pm on Mar 26, 2007 (gmt 0) |
notice that simply searching for link command
link comand also brings blank page.
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Regent
msg:3293818 | 12:15 am on Mar 27, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Really bizarre. I also tried "link com" and "link comma" and they produce a blank page. Anything that starts with link and has "com" following it also produces a blank page. I think Live is just messed up now. In fact, any combination of the "link" plus "com" will make MSN/Live produce a blank page, as long as the "link" part comes before the "com" part, for example: 1) link hello com
2) 122link234 heycom
3) linkage fast commets
4) linkstore commercial Live is losing millions of $$ is keywords that follow this pattern. Looks like a programmer messed up a regular expression!
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NicoleA
msg:3293925 | 3:25 am on Mar 27, 2007 (gmt 0) |
This blank page thing is how they treat 'forbidden' searches, or so I've heard. I wonder if they're taking away the backlink feature for good. If so, it's a pretty rude way to do it.
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MarkWolk
msg:3293970 | 4:25 am on Mar 27, 2007 (gmt 0) |
linkdomain:example.com does work for me, though.
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mann3r
msg:3294209 | 11:23 am on Mar 27, 2007 (gmt 0) |
looking at msn also to check my links, but its seems i go also on a blank page, even linkdomain
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ramachandra
msg:3294266 | 12:39 pm on Mar 27, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Yup, me too getting the blank page when search for backlinks using link: command, what could be the reason?
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crobb305
msg:3294422 | 3:27 pm on Mar 27, 2007 (gmt 0) |
| This blank page thing is how they treat 'forbidden' searches |
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Rather amateurish and unprofessional if you ask me.
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Regent
msg:3294478 | 4:36 pm on Mar 27, 2007 (gmt 0) |
I don't agree that the blank page is a forbidden search. How can you say that searching for "link commercial store" is a forbidden search?
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MarkWolk
msg:3294612 | 6:58 pm on Mar 27, 2007 (gmt 0) |
You are right! The search also leads to a blank page, whereas | Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link German botanist |
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does give relevant results. It looks like some kind of bug that may be the prelude of some changes, possibly the removal of the link: operator. [edited by: MarkWolk at 6:59 pm (utc) on Mar. 27, 2007]
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crobb305
msg:3294875 | 11:35 pm on Mar 27, 2007 (gmt 0) |
| I don't agree that the blank page is a forbidden search. How can you say that searching for "link commercial store" is a forbidden search? |
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Yeah, I don't think it is a forbidden search either. A "forbidden page" would serve a 403 error code. This isn't happening. It is simply a blank page so something is just not working. I think.
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NicoleA
msg:3294885 | 11:44 pm on Mar 27, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Crobb, MSN doesn't give 403 errors for searches they don't want you doing, they just blank page it.
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Regent
msg:3294902 | 12:07 am on Mar 28, 2007 (gmt 0) |
There is more evidence that this is a software bug and not a removal of the "link:" feature. See my example above that show that any combo of "link" plus "com" produce a blank page. These are not forbidden searches as they are random. Again see my examples above.
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NicoleA
msg:3294926 | 12:25 am on Mar 28, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Yeah, Regent, it is a bug...they messed up other searches when they blocked backlink checking. Inadvertent collateral damage. I'm not saying they're blocking backlink searches forever (I really hope they don't) but they appear to be doing that for now.
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Regent
msg:3295627 | 6:33 pm on Mar 28, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Either MSN blocked "link:" searches and mistakingly also blocked many other searches such as "linkstore commercial" or the other way around -- they blocked some other search that contained the word "link" and they inadvertently trashed their own "link:" feature. I just wish that MSN would make some kind of indication to the community so we can know for sure what the story is.
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Kristos
msg:3295749 | 9:07 pm on Mar 28, 2007 (gmt 0) |
They have changed the syntax to "links to" (no quotes) and then the domain
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crobb305
msg:3295781 | 9:43 pm on Mar 28, 2007 (gmt 0) |
| They have changed the syntax to "links to" (no quotes) and then the domain |
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and no colon. Just "links to example.com"
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msndude
msg:3295921 | 1:19 am on Mar 29, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Hey folks, here's the official response on this:
[blogs.msdn.com...]
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Jane_Doe
msg:3295973 | 3:30 am on Mar 29, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Thank you for the update, msndude.
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bwnbwn
msg:3296627 | 6:30 pm on Mar 29, 2007 (gmt 0) |
linkfromdomain:example.com still works
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auroinf0
msg:3296666 | 7:13 pm on Mar 29, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Hey yes.... its still like that. I just checked for my site and its a blank page.
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crobb305
msg:3296690 | 7:43 pm on Mar 29, 2007 (gmt 0) |
| linkfromdomain:example.com still works |
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And as stated above, "links to example.com" still works to see SOME backlinks. This seems to provide a very partial list and is probably useless for all practical purposes.
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randle
msg:3296746 | 8:35 pm on Mar 29, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Thats to bad, of all the ways to check your back links I liked MSN the best.
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tictoc
msg:3296919 | 12:28 am on Mar 30, 2007 (gmt 0) |
I liked MSN the best because it was not as clunky as the Yahoo explorer. I guess we will see if anything positive comes out of this.
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MattJ
msg:3297114 | 7:22 am on Mar 30, 2007 (gmt 0) |
I get this error for "link:example.com": XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: [search.live.com...]
Line Number 1, Column 1: |
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Using "links to example.com" fixes it as noted by someone else, thanks.
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