Microsoft is assuring customers using its adCenter platform that they are not charged for the clicks generated by MSNBot. Rajesh Srivastava, principal group program manager, Bing, responded to discussions pointing out that the Bing crawler clicks on the company’s own adCenter ads. The Redmond company is not den... |
26 August 2009
04:50 GMT |
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Bing has brought hope to Microsoft's search division and, while the initial traffic numbers don't show much growth and are sometimes conflicting, overall the signs are positive and the product is seen as a success. But with all the focus on the user interface it's easy to forget that a search engine is... |
20 July 2009
06:12 GMT |
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The constant evolution of Microsoft's search engine affects all aspects of Live Search, including the crawler. MSNBot, as the Live Search crawler is dubbed, was patched at the end of the past week as a direct consequence of feedback received by the Redmond company. According to the software giant, the move is an... |
22 May 2009
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With Kumo already dogfooded in Redmond, Microsoft has demonstrated a strong commitment to the organic growth of its search engine. However, the evolution of Live Search is not limited to the Kumo search engine tested internally by the software giant. Nathan Buggia and Brett Yount from the Live Search Webmaster Center... |
24 April 2009
07:29 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering webmasters and website owners the possibility to remove content and URLs from the Live Search index. The Redmond company assures that it intends for its crawler to play nice with robots.txt files and inherently with the Robots Exclusion Protocol, in order to give content owners a high level of c... |
29 January 2009
07:33 GMT |
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When it comes down to search engines it's never actually a matter of crawling before walking. Crawlers are specific tools associated with search engines designed to explore and index websites. In this context, Microsoft announced that it has evolved its crawler for Live Search, in order to improve efficiency. MS... |
13 February 2008
03:41 GMT |
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