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Now I don’t listen much to the radio but in the morning whilst having a show it good to have a few tunes in the background and hear the latest news and what issues London is having with the transport system..

Here is my radio .. pretty cool..

Anyway back to the point…

Between each and every song in the morning on Virgin radio the presenter keeps going on about bigsnap …  Search and you can win blahhh…

Not just that but the competition on the radio for people to phone in are once again related to bigsnap..

Yesterday to question was “What have search for on bigsnapsearch where you can win, which returned a site about “pickels”  ”
(some dog with found a shed load of cash)

The “new” search engine as its called by the radio presenters should have a name change to big virgin search

Live new search engine with prizes is called bigsnapsearch…

Basically each search you make you get 2 cards..

If the card match then you win.. BTW if the card value match you don’t win the cards have to be identical..

Over here in the UK its all virgin stuf..

Back to the point..

I was typing loads of crap trying to get a match of course..

I basically start typing out loud.. Like “this is crap” and “win” then “let me win you *******” and so on..

I got to the point where I typed in “i’m so sad” ..

Guess what … bigsnapsearch can’t take it… LOL..

The only search engine I know that your can’t use  apostrophe… Good luck guys heehhe

See here: http://www.bigsnapsearch.com/results.aspx?FORM=MIFUAA&q=i%27m%20so%20sad

Live.com serps do not highlight anything under 2 characters..

It seem like a lazzy way of doing things ?

Here some screen shots for the terms “ca” and “cat” 

Now you may say CA isn’t a word but live also isn’t bolding 2 lettered words…

VS the cat:

Vs google and CA

 Interesting … Mircosoft are going to keep expanding the “maps” side of the business..

Quote from the bbc:

Huge opportunity’

Microsoft’s internet empire also includes services such as Virtual Earth, Live Search and Windows Live.

Earlier this year Microsoft bought a 1.6% stake in social networking site Facebook for $240m (£117m) and US online advertising firm aQuantive for $6bn

More here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7140920.stm

10 million users per month… Nice traffic.. Thats got to bump up the live UK search traffic hasn’t it? We wait and see.

I’m so happy!  live search now return links to a page !!! w0000t

 :D

Why I am happy, well live/msn has been key for me in the past for when I go hunting.. What makes msn different is that you can find the links to a page and add a keyword… Here is and example :

http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=%2Blinkdomain%3Awww.seohome.co.uk+gabs&form=QBRE

This then returns all the links to seohome which relate to the word “gabs” …

Massive tip here.. Have a look at your competitor links for the page the ranks with the keywords e.g. the above link will allow you to see why or why not seohome ranks for gabs

My info here on the link command and screen shots if you can’t see it yet: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/015308.html

 Record sales of vista have created record profit for M$

The world’s largest software maker said net profit in the three months to 31 March was $4.93bn (£2.47bn) or 50 cents per share, up from $2.98bn last year.

 But still no link: command? 

The old thing about the live.com link command is the fact that it returns a blank page.. No ad, no sorry message, nothing .. odd..

More info on the sales here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6598025.stm

I posting on forums and blog how seo = 301 …

So last few day i’ve spotted some dup content issues which i’ve been fixing with a new 301 script that check the case of a query making sure that only the 1 case is ever indexed..

What goes wrong:

page.asp?case=HELLO

vs

page.asp?case=hello

Both the above would return the same page..

thesku=Request.ServerVariables(”QUERY_STRING”)
nothesku=Left(Right(thesku, Len(thesku)-5),1)

thesku=Left(Right(thesku, Len(thesku)-4),1000)

nothesku=(ASC(nothesku))

if (nothesku>96)then
thesku=UCase(thesku)

‘you can change the below to whatever you page name is.. 

thesku=”page.asp?case=”&thesku

Response.Write(”change to uppercase”)

end if

Response.Write(thesku)

 

The above checks the Ascii value for the first char and if lower will write out the page location in upper case.. By adding a simple 301 redirect to this its will pass the value to the correct no dup page..

Problems and bugs with the above..

It only check the first letter.. now for me this is fine but you can of course loop and check each letter..

Never seen msn auto filling the search box but i’m seeing it now!

 www.msn.co.uk

 The search is for the “The Apprentice BBC” which starts tonight ..

The search term is bad imho..

 Anyway here is a screen shot..

Maybe one day msn will auto fill with “seohome” ?

The link command on msn is like one of the best things EVER lol..

Its a big big help for use looking at others backlinks..

So today I was have a look and found nothing but a blank page..

I’m 100% not the first to see this its old news but when ” I “  see it i’ll report it !!

Try the below link:  

http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=link%3Awww.seohome.co.uk&form=QBRE

Missed the post before .. Someone beat me to it..

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/012847.html

Msn is now display local results and companies and telephone numbers in the UK…

Heres a screen shot: