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[TechNews AM] Bing's Fake Referrer Spam Back, Now Hiding Referrer Now?... (SEO ...: The years and years of Microsoft polluting web logs with fake referrer data, which they have 'fixed' numerous times, including a couple weeks ago. We had confirmed reports from webmasters that Bing was no longer showing up in the log...

[Search Engine Roundtable] Did Microsoft Finally Fix The Fake Referrer Spam Issue?: Brett Yount from Microsoft's Bing Webmaster team has commented here and in a Bing Forum thread saying the issue with the fake referrers being generated by MSNBot has finally been fixed. By finally, I mean, an issue dating back over.

[Boycott Novell - Recent changes [en]] Microsoft's Bing Spams Web Sites with Referrer SPAM and Net ...: The crawler is known as MSNBot, from the days when the recently renamed Bing search engine was known as MSN Search. When that crawler gathers a web page, it sometimes leaves behind “referrer” information in a web site’s logs ”” fake referrer information, that is.

[Microsoft Bing!] Bing’s Fake Referrer Spam Back, Now Hiding Referrer Now? - Search ...: Microsofts Bing search helps user to make better decisions, focus initially on four key vertical areas: making a purchase decision(Bing Cash Back Shopping), planning a trip(Bing Travel Search Engine), researching a health condition or finding a local business(Explore Earch with Bing Maps). Search Images and video at Bing.

[jatiN mahindrA doT coM] Did Microsoft Finally Fix The Fake Referrer Spam Issue?: Related posts: Microsoft Bing Still Spamming Fake Referrers In Webmaster Log Files; Microsoft Should Avoid .

[Search Engine Roundtable] Bing Classifies Cloaking Detection as "Single Word Query" Issue: One site I administer (>300K visitors/day) has around 18% of its bing referrers from this IP range. That's a significant minority, and could skew the bing effect somewhat.

[jatiN mahindrA doT coM] More Cloaking Tests In Form Of Fake Referrers From Microsoft Bing ...: Program Manager from the Bing Webmaster Team said, “I have an idea of what’s causing this and trying to fix it on the backend.” What that idea is, he did not disclose, but there is speculation that these are more cloaking spam tests from Microsoft.

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[Bing Community] Bing - Links: the good, the bad, and the ugly””Part 2 (SEM 101 ...: However, those referrer sites are usually nothing more than junk pages, consisting of endless lists of outbound links to any subject under the sun, void of any meaningful content. To make matters worse, many of the customers of such services tend to be shady enterprises, such as those associated with adult entertainment, counterfeit goods, gambling, fake pharmaceuticals, and pirated software.

[Technologies > Computers > search engines] Search Engine Roundtable: Microsoft MSN Search Archives: As part of the deal, Overture got the public AlltheWeb.com site (now a Yahoo property after Yahoo purchased Overture later in 2003), but FAST kept the web crawler technology and has continued to develop it. So Microsoft is getting a market-leading enterprise search company and a world-class web crawler (not to mention some of the smartest engineering talent in search) as part of this deal.

[Breaking News] Detroit mayor meets with youth concerned about jobs, crimes and ...: Detroit mayor: Hard-hit city needs federal fundsDETROIT ”” Mayor Dave Bing hopes long-term solutions to Detroit's problems arise from the National Summit being held in the city, but said short-term financial help likely only will come from the federal government. The pro basketball Hall-of-Famer and newly elected mayor said Tuesday that holding the conference on manufacturing, technology, energy and the environment in Detroit gives leaders from elsewhere a view from the front lines.

[Click Sniper] Ijango is BAD for Google Content Network Advertisers: It seems like Steve Smith and Cameron Sharpe sat down and spoke the infamous words to each other, “what….if you could MLM Google?” and then they went about figuring out everything about great compensation plans, getting the best lawyers and how to get people signed up and how to get people excited about paying them up front and then, at the last minute they thought, “oh yeah, we might need a web site to do this!

[Webanalyticsbook - Web Analytics] Webanalyticsbook - Web Analytics » Analytics-google.info = Fake ...: Now, would you have any tips on how to explain these technically nuanced differences to those non-techies, as often vendors and executives alike would rely on Alexa ranking, when in fact, those numbers are only valid as a comparative trend to other websites, and not very valid for websites not in the top 150,000 trafficked?

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