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MSN UK where are their results coming from?

         

GodLikeLotus

6:04 pm on Jun 14, 2002 (gmt 0)

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I have just been going through our referer logs today and noticed a slight increase from MSN UK. Looking a little bit further I notice that MSN UK is not only sending visitors to our homepage (the only page listed in Looksmart but to pages within our site. I did the same search on MSN UK with the same search term and YES we seem to be getting results that are for pages within our site. The most interesting bit is that the page description from MSN UK matches exactly the Google description. The description is being read from the text on the page itself as well as the page title itself. Has anyone seen anything like this happening.

arc_light

10:21 pm on Jun 14, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Well there are a few possibilities...quoting from this thread [webmasterworld.com], they're displaying "featured sites (MSN ads), the sponsored sites (Overture) the web directory listings (Looksmart UK first then US second)...and Ink redirects" And now Zeal UK too for noncommerce sites. If I had to guess I'd say you're seeing Ink listings...