Comments on: Microsoft Live Search: You Suck…edit: I Suck! http://www.jasondunn.com/live-search-you-suck-42 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:54:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Jason Dunn http://www.jasondunn.com/live-search-you-suck-42/comment-page-1#comment-32 Jason Dunn Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:03:54 +0000 http://www.jasondunn.com/live-search-you-suck-42#comment-32 Well that's certainly interesting - I was using a very old robots.txt file that I honestly hadn't looked at in a long time...I've actually now removed it completely from my three sites, so that should help matters. Thanks for taking the time to stop by, I appreciate it, and I apologize for ranting about something where it was mostly my own damn fault. ;-) Well that’s certainly interesting – I was using a very old robots.txt file that I honestly hadn’t looked at in a long time…I’ve actually now removed it completely from my three sites, so that should help matters. Thanks for taking the time to stop by, I appreciate it, and I apologize for ranting about something where it was mostly my own damn fault. ;-)

]]> By: eytan http://www.jasondunn.com/live-search-you-suck-42/comment-page-1#comment-31 eytan Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:54:59 +0000 http://www.jasondunn.com/live-search-you-suck-42#comment-31 Hi Jason, Thanks for taking the time to write this up and for using our engine -- feedback is always appreciated! While I cannot go into detail as to why we are ranking your pages where we are ranking them I can say that we are constantly working to improve our results. One thing that will definitely help is if we can crawl your sites! While investigating your sites I did notice that the robots.txt on ALL of your sites except the Zune is allowing many crawlers: http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/robots.txt, but it is NOT allowing our crawler. We therefore will fall back to the catch all rule which is to block all other crawlers. We would love to have your content in our index so please allow our crawler -- the user agent is "MSNBot". Yes, I know that is confusing that the product name is Live Search and the User-Agent is MSNBot. Eytan Seidman Live Search Team Hi Jason,
Thanks for taking the time to write this up and for using our engine — feedback is always appreciated! While I cannot go into detail as to why we are ranking your pages where we are ranking them I can say that we are constantly working to improve our results.

One thing that will definitely help is if we can crawl your sites! While investigating your sites I did notice that the robots.txt on ALL of your sites except the Zune is allowing many crawlers: http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/robots.txt, but it is NOT allowing our crawler.

We therefore will fall back to the catch all rule which is to block all other crawlers. We would love to have your content in our index so please allow our crawler — the user agent is “MSNBot”. Yes, I know that is confusing that the product name is Live Search and the User-Agent is MSNBot.

Eytan Seidman
Live Search Team

]]> By: Chris Leckness is a Geek - » Microsoft Live Search: You Suck - Stealing Jason’s Title http://www.jasondunn.com/live-search-you-suck-42/comment-page-1#comment-28 Chris Leckness is a Geek - » Microsoft Live Search: You Suck - Stealing Jason’s Title Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:42:35 +0000 http://www.jasondunn.com/live-search-you-suck-42#comment-28 [...] Read Jason’s take at The Personal Blog of Jason Dunn. [...] [...] Read Jason’s take at The Personal Blog of Jason Dunn. [...]

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