May 30th, 2006 by James Omdahl
I looked at a post over at Threadwatch this morning called “MSN Search Now Offering More Spam Per Query” and it got me looking at MSN results. How shocked was I when I saw that queries for “auto insurance,” “health insurance,” and the like were generally spam free!
It seems that on the 25th MSN accidentally let 100 million pages into the MSN index without being filtered, which totally destroyed their search results. It took MSNs people until the early in the morning on the 27th to get everything fixed up, but now things actually look good at MSN (at least in the insurance vertical). Kinda freaky.
Who knows if this will last. I keep thinking I am dreaming over here. Could MSN really have cleaned up their spam problems?
To see the comment from the MSN rep at Webmasterworld, go here. And if you are searching around on MSN, let me know how you think things look.
May 30th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
“Real estate” seems clean. Amazing!
June 3rd, 2006 at 12:48 am
Yeah - I hope MSN can keep it up. I always feel like they are trying to do good things but something is holding them back.
As that guy says in every Adam Sandler movie - “You can do it!”