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Microsoft Crawling Google Results
For New Search Engine?
I was questioned today by a developer who was watching a particular IP address
scan his site. The IP was 65.54.188.86
and is registered to Microsoft Corp. located at One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington
98052. This visitor was not sending the normal header information associated with
a crawler to the web server such as an http robot name or identifying info or
even a browser name.
Is Microsoft "using" Google's search results to populate their index?
Discuss Microsoft's behavior at WebProWorld.
 The
behavior it demonstrated made it look like a crawler, especially since it was
spidering urls that were no longer in existence (search engine spiders crawl site
segments at regular intervals and often come back when an initial crawl left urls
uncrawled) and doing so at the rate of 1 page every 3 - 5 seconds. The visitor
started their visit at 7:37 am and was still on the site at 12:00 pm.
Correction, the data was there after all, here's the crawler info... msnbot/0.3
(+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
Here's the kicker
So now you're saying, so what, big deal. But this really is a big deal. It's a
big deal not only because the urls this visitor was making requests to don't exist
any longer but because the only place these urls can be found is in Google's search
results using site:www.sitename.com. A similar query on MSN Search doesn't show
the urls at all, even on the beta version of their new Microsoft
search engine. But then within just hours of the visitors exit from the site
the new same search at Microsoft's new search engine shows all of the urls in
question being fully indexed within its results.
My Theory On This Mysterious Microsoft Crawler
The old msn required a fee to be crawled by its spider. But a few months back
MSN dropped the fee and said they were going to begin crawling the entire web
and doing it without charge. However, that's no easy task. So I believe MSN is
using the results from Google and possibly even Yahoo to get all of the pages
they've indexed on sites that have a relatively low page count in the current
msn search engine.
First off, that's the fastest way to get the relevant pages from a web site. Sure
they could just go to the site directly and start crawling but in doing so they're
going to get tons of duplicate urls and urls that seem different but point to
the same content. Crawling Google's results will eliminate the bandwidth to some
extent but will not completely take care of the duplicate content issue their
spider will encounter.
 Secondly,
crawling Google's results can act as a qualitative measure for their new search
engine. By creating a baseline number of pages per site when the new Microsoft
Search is launched and running a comparison on a regular interval for the next
6 months, they'll be able to determine internally if their engine is finding and
indexing the same links and as many links as Google. Call it competitive analysis
or whatever you want.
So Microsoft's Screen Scraping?
Obviously my conclusion should be taken as a grain of salt but it's a definite
possibility. Microsoft very well could be screen scraping Google (or maybe even
using their API, LOL) and crawling the urls it finds. It makes sense from a business
case but I wonder if there are any legal issues there. I doubt it. It's like putting
garbage out to the curb. Once it's out there it's fair game but I bet Google's
lawyers would have more to say than that on the case.
Has anyone out there seen similar behavior on their own sites? Please comment
with your qualitative/objective data if so.
Jason's article first appeared on his blog MarketingShift.com.
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in WebProWorld.
Jason Dowdell
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Organic
SEO – Getting Started With Larger Sites
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Commercial websites are getting larger. Driven by the rapid evolution of content
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sophistication of Internet retailers, "small" business sites averaging 500+ pages
have become common.
Some large sites are very well focused and present relatively few problems for
SEOs. Most larger sites however list a wide array of products, services and information.
The optimization of large retail sites presents multiple issues for SEOs to work
through. Achieving product-specific placements for sites featuring numerous products
is much more difficult than achieving placements for smaller, more focused sites.
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has a solution.
A placement campaign for a large site is a long-term venture and clients approaching
SEOs should be prepared to be involved in the campaign and to exercise patience
while waiting for results. It might even take a few days for the SEO to prepare
a preliminary plan for the campaign. There are a number of questions and challenges
clients should expect from their SEOs.
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and management services since 1997. http://www.stepforth.com/
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Two for none?
Our post today comes from Ricardo
Zea. He is wanting to know why his site ranks so well in Google's search results,
but rank poorly
in Yahoo and Ask. I've come across a couple posts that were similar
to this one, but it never hurts to help
out a friend. Have you ever heard of this or seen it happen? Tell us your
thoughts at WebProWorld.
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All
for one and two for none
By Ricardo
Zea
Ok, I have a situation with three kings, Google, Yahoo and Ask, and I hope you
can give us a glance to a method which can help us (our company) resolve this
case.
Our rankings in Google are really good, in fact, alot better than what we have
expected, but for some unkown reason, our site does not appear in Yahoo nor Ask.
Now, on Yahoo we come up in place 155 and in Ask we cannot find our link.
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