MS Live Still Referral Spamming
That's right folks, after the initial fuss, the backtracking (with its very own official statement!), Microsoft's Live search engine is still doing these referral spamming requests.
I'm seeing this on my new service Social Alerter. The request details:
- Remote: livebot-65-55-165-77.search.live.com (65.55.165.77)
- UA: of Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
- Referring URL: http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=social&mrt=en-us&FORM=LIVSOP
Full list of IP addresses doing this:
- 65.55.165.90
- 65.55.165.43
- 65.55.165.96
- 65.55.165.120
- 65.55.165.100
- 65.55.165.76
- 65.55.165.16
The fake search queries are all either [social] or [alerts].
Anyone else seeing this? It's clearly not fixed as they claimed and is starting to get annoying.
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July 6th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Still seeing it.
range:
65.55.109.x
65.55.110.x
over 60% of Top Referring Search Engines in my B2Evolution blogs, to such quality search terms as “email” or “contact”.
July 30th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Thanks for posting this. Was trying to identify that Live junk. I take it that this is not a new issue….