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Monthly Archives: November 2006

MSN delivers Hand crafted results

BLIP According to this document found inside their own site Microsoft Live offers a kind of job which descriptiod deserves to be quoted in full: Hand crafted results When all else fails, and the ranking algorithms do not pass the confidence threshold, we fall back to delivering handcrafted results. Working on a team of approximately [...]

MSN likes good domain names

BLIP MSN more than the other two would rank higher for a particular keyword even smaller sites with domains like www.keyword.com or www.something-keyword.com I’am not sure if this is simply due to the fact that it is a really young project or due to simplified algorithms… but so far it stays as a fact. tags: [...]

and what about Linkie-Winkie?

The site seemd to be dead for some time and now it’s reincarnated as a personal blog of Chris Ridings. Now at least we know who was behind this undertaking (or was he?). I thought of removing links to this site but as he seems not to be using it for spamming (just some self [...]