Apr 11th, 2007
MSN disables back link queries
Blaming abuse of the system by data miners MSN announced on March 28th that they will no longer allow the following queries in their search engine - link:, linkdomain: and inurl:
From their blog:
“We are doing our best to get this back online as soon as possible in a manner that allows folks that use this functionality for real queries. We have a few good ideas up our sleeve on how to enable this, but want to make sure we are making the right changes that will give you the functionality you want and all of our customers the experience they deserve.”
You can read more as well as the comments from webmaster who are obviously upset on their blog below.
http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2007/03/28/we-are-flattered-but.aspx
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