As I was playing around at www.MSN.com I randomly searched for ”sdsdf“. I like to check out weird keywords like that just to see what the search engines are doing with non-competitive keywords. Let me tell you I am glad I did that this time.
I was surprised to see that MSN had not just one but the top two ranking results being pages that return the status code 404 error not found. I know no one is probably ever going to search for “sdsdf” but still MSN should not have 404 error pages being included into their index. Makes you wonder a little bit about what is going on over at MSN’s search engine.
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Hi Greg. I’ve noticed some strange results in MSN lately, too. Try the query “global warming” for instance. The #1 result is an energy industry disinfo site called globalwarming.org. IMHO, blatant propaganda is hardly a relevant search result. It’s not giving me a 404, but the site won’t resolve either. Either way, this site should not be sitting at #1.
BTW – Happy New Year!