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Microsoft's unleashes new Internet search software [news.yahoo.com]
Microsoft officially started its new Internet search engine crafted to compete with offerings from rival online powerhouses Google and Yahoo.Microsoft announced that its "Live Search" online portal was opened in 47 markets worldwide to complement MSN and Windows Live Internet-scouring services that attract an estimated 465 million visitors monthly....
Cmon guys.. help! :)
Did the search in local but get presented with just two boxes for what and where. Type in a search term and location and it gives me a SERPs with Web ¦ Images ¦ News ¦ <Local> ¦ More. None of those lead to anywhere with a "businesses", "people" or "map" ....
And now it's showing "This site is temporarily unavailable, please check back soon" [intl.local.live.com] Arrgh!
This is NOT by design. We're looking into it. Thanks for telling us.
Thanks, I was getting sad. MSN sends me steady traffic so I would expect LIVE to do the same. I was wondering why I didn't see either in my logs today.
Great news.
I was starting to think MS would be charging webmaster to access referal info. Afterall, referal info is very valuable to us, especially when it contains search terms.
At any rate, i'm curious how it works technically. I don't see any onClick attributes in their links. It's something to do with that gping attribute. They use js to redirect your click through their site thus recording people serp clicks. Here is more info:
[webmasterworld.com...]
So not only do they know what you searched for they also know what you clicked on.
msndude has been a little quiet, though unlike me he may have a life... and will be back on Monday.
I am very curious to see how this plays out....
Does Live Search have a spam report form, and if not, do you plan to add one?
Use the following HTML along with a HTTP headers monitoring application to replicate the issue.
I hope this helps to resolve the problem. WDPRO, along with others, are really suffering from the loss of referrers in there log reporting.
- Philip
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<title>WindowsLive NO Referrer</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function onClick(evt)
{
var img = new Image();
/*
*Using an event listener will result in NOT sending the referrer.
*/
img.addEventListener( 'load',callBack,false );
/*
*Using an event on the element WILL send the referrer.
*/
//img.onload = callBack;
img.src = getImage();
evt.preventDefault();
}
function callBack(evt)
{
window.location.href = "http://www.google.com";
}
function getImage()
{
return "http://www.google.com/intl/en/images/logo.gif";
}
function window_onLoad(evt)
{
var testLink = document.getElementById( "testLink" );
if( testLink!== null )
{
testLink.addEventListener( 'click',onClick,false );
}
}
window.addEventListener( 'load',window_onLoad,false );
</script>
</head>
<body>
<a id="testLink" href="test.htm">Test Link</a>
</body>
</html>
[edited by: Frederic1 at 9:51 pm (utc) on Sep. 20, 2006]
I just hope they are willing to take suggestions from outside sources.
- Philip
Historical levels for ranking pages?
We have seen the odd one here and there strangely...
We do know this information is important to webmasters, and we regret the inconvenience.
Yer the best...thanks!
What in the heck U prowlin around at that hour of night..er...morning... Where U located?
I am going to start checking clients logs/stats.... wish me luck.
/clap
