Der neue Internet Explorer 7 (IE7)… Alle hassen ihn… (natürlich er stammt aus dem Hort des Bösen). Ich hab noch nicht alles ausprobiert, aber was ich sehe finde ich größtenteils nett. Ich werde nicht vom Firefox wechseln, weil ich die Plug-Ins einfach super finde. Und da wird der IE noch brauchen. Aber ich sehe noch keinen Grund den IE zu dizzen. So what: Ich mag ihn. Er ist auf jeden Fall eine Steigerung und der Look gefällt mir auch. Bis auf dass er mich an dieses Apfel-System erinnert, das niemand benutzt… 
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Gegen den Strom – Ich mag den IE7
Donnerstag, 19. Oktober 2006MSRBOT nervt
Donnerstag, 19. Oktober 2006Microsofts tolle Data Mining Wunderwaffe MSRBOT schneidet zu lange Links ab und ruft diese auf. Nervig…zumindestens, wenn er das ein paar 1.000 Mal macht.
Useragent: MSRBOT (http://research.microsoft.com/research/sv/msrbot/)
NetRange: 209.133.0.0 – 209.133.127.255
Los wird man ihn natürlich so:
robots.txt
User-agent: msrbot
Disallow: /
Schlägt Yahoo! wieder zu?
Freitag, 22. September 2006Nach der Übernahme von Flickr und del.icio.us steht der amerikanische Portal-Betreiber Yahoo! nun mit der Studenten-Community Facebook in Verhandlungen. Mitbewerber um die Gunst der bisherigen Kapitalgeber von Facebook sind Microsoft und Viacom.
Das Studenten-Network würde natürlich gut in Yahoo!’s “Wir kaufen alles was läuft”-Strategie passen. Facebook verdient ca. 100 Mio. Dollar im Jahr und fordert mind. 1,5 Mrd. US-$ laut golem. Aber auch Viacom hat sicher interesse an der weltweit größten Studiosi-Clique. Rupert Murdoch, Eigner von Viacom, durfte bei MySpace.com erfahren wie schnell man den Kaufpreis (ca. 560 Mio. US$) mit einem einzigen guten Werbedeal (Google – 900$) wieder amortisieren kann. Daher gehen die 100 Mio Jahresumsatz wohl noch von einer Untervermarktung aus. Auch Microsoft könnte mit Facebook endlich etwas auf MySpace aufschließen. Denn die eigene Community spaces.msn.com läuft alles andere als vergleichbar gut.
Fraglich ist wie Facebook langfristig Wachstum sichern will. Studenten sind parallel bei MySpace angemeldet und wechseln später in Business-Netzwerke. Die relativ klar abgegrenzte Studienzeit lässt sich zwar mit Alumni-Aktionen teils reaktivieren, dennoch fehlt dem Konzept die Weitsichtigkeit.
Freuen wird das ganze sicherlich die Gründer des deutschen studiVZ, dessen Marktwert wieder ein bisschen gestiegen sein sollte. (Übrigens würde deren Seite wenigstens eine minimale SEO ganz gut tun…ist ja richtig übel…)
Top5 Most likely targets for a MSN Bomb
Montag, 19. Juni 2006When talking of a MSN bomb i refer to my blog post about the lousy domain detection and search algorithm of MSN. So I perceive a MSN bomb to be an action – using a loophole in MSN’s “algorithm” – intending to rank no.1 for another domain name.
While ranking for domain names does not seem to be an issue yet, you could probably make a living by fishing for noobs and misguided MSN users mixing up MSN search with their browser bar. You would be surprised how many users type domain names into search applets.
These are the domains which might suffer first from their position being taken over by sneaky MSN optimizers:
1. ebay.com – I heard of frames happen to work well with ebay. What’s the ROI of having all IE-noobs coming to your site, when looking for ebay.com?
2. amazon.com – How many MSN users are able to distinguish between amazon.com and an affiliate site?
3. wikipedia.org – Newbies like wikipedia very much and tend to look for it quite often.
4. Even worse – Phishing: This loophole could be a target of phishing too. Because: MSN never would deliver a phishing site to you, would it?
5. Yahoo.com – In case they lose their top ranking, they’ll just consume MSN, I guess.
Why is google.com missing? ….. Google Blogoscoped will rank no.1 for www.google.com soon. There’s nothing threatening about it. 
By the way: Is it more likely to have MSN change that algo than having them review those SERPs?
MSN Search finds itself 2nd best…
Montag, 19. Juni 2006…and is absolutely right.
If you are looking for MSN’s German search engine search.msn.de on their own site (screenshot) you will see MSN rank 2nd below a simple blogpost of mine.
What I’ve tried to prove some days ago is that the MSN Search alogrithm is so out of date that one could even rank for their own PR6 search engine subdomain.
There are 3 things you have to know about MSN when asking yourself how such absurd things might have happened.
- If you look for a domain name at google.com, Google will know what’s a domain name and what’s not and deliver special results for domains. So anyone will find the domain he desired to find. For MSN a domain name is a search string like any other.
- MSN doesn’t get anything about trust, popularity or relevance of domains. The reason might be, that MSN hasn’t been in the search business for so long and might suffer from the lack of historical data. So MSN has a very strong on-page-bias.
- But when it comes to comparing a search string with their document database, you will see MSN is the most accurate search engine one could ever think of. They will search your html-document for the exact search string in title, headers, description, copy text and (maybe) inbound links and will rank the
most relevantbest matching sites on top.
MSN is so narrow-minded when matching search strings with documents that you can easily reach top positions in SERPs just by doing A+ text book SEO as it ruled the late 90s. And since MSN does not see any difference between domain names and standard search strings they even allow you to rank for a query on their own domain.
One could say that all this is well known and 1. nobody will look for „search.msn.de“ and 2. nobody will use MSN Search. BUT: Have you ever thought about all those WWW-noobs opening their IE, seeing msn.com as their start page and perceiving the search applet as the line, where they have to enter the domain name they are looking for? Having a look at my statistics, I can tell you, there are hundreds and thousands of them. It took me 4 days, a blog full of personal bullshit and a few freebie backlinks to rank for search.msn.de. What will it take to rank for ebay.com or amazon.com? Of course most of the MSN users will do this query. I guess you could make some bucks fishing for those users.
Call me a coward, cause I did not try this with real competition, but I didn’t know it would be too easy and it shouldn’t look like me making money out of it. I also used search.msn.de because it’s a good symbol for their cluelessness. I’ve thought about using www.msn.de, but they seem to be kind of aware of the problem and the SERPs for www.msn.de seem very hand-crafted to me. They list a bunch of 301 redirected domains on top. I don’t see how that could be part of any ranking algorithm and used search.msn.de instead.
I really wonder when MSN’s going to deliver something looking like a search engine for their users. And I don’t wanna know how many results they have to “review” for getting the majority of things look fine.
MSN: owned!
Digg this story to give MSN a BUZZ!.
Update: Look at Google Blogoscoped trying to rank for www.google.com.
2nd Update: Looks like MSN fixed the issue by replacing the GERMAN Name MSN Suche with MSN Search. (OMG! Compare the screenshot and the new SERP)
