tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28358787.post7609394403259282697..comments2023-06-04T07:15:39.972-04:00Comments on Arc's Soy Machine: why we're blocking Microsoft LiveAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17200801866043907681noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28358787.post-70996453984790724852008-02-21T13:44:00.000-05:002008-02-21T13:44:00.000-05:00If they were checking to see if people were gaming...If they were checking to see if people were gaming them, as Google does as well, they wouldn't be reporting to be referred from search.live.com search queries.<BR/><BR/>This is statistics skewing and, because they're ignoring robots.txt in this, were hammering our server's CPU in the process. Most of the pages they were hitting were not even in their own index.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17200801866043907681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28358787.post-72008958585668664812008-02-21T06:45:00.000-05:002008-02-21T06:45:00.000-05:00From reading the Microsoft comment, they do give a...From reading the <A HREF="http://blogs.msdn.com/webmaster/archive/2007/12/04/live-search-and-cloaking-detection.aspx" REL="nofollow">Microsoft comment</A>, they do give a decent reason for it. i.e. they're identifying sites that are trying to game search engines by sending different pages to bots vs. humans. Being annoyed and blocking them are fine, but I don't think it's reasonable to claim Microsoft are doing it "to make themselves seem more important, or perhaps just to flood free software project's websites with unwanted traffic"Dan O'Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16056171537827957715noreply@blogger.com