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 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.

 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” ?