In my FEEDJIT Live feed Im seeing a lot of single word searches coming from Microsofts Live Search. Whats up with that?
Thanks to Inland Echo for reporting this. Microsoft’s web crawler plays a little trick on websites by telling them that it came from a Live Search results page. So you’ll see URLs like http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=password appearing in your logs. Obviously their web crawler didn’t come from that page and we don’t know why it behaves this way. We may add a feature to FEEDJIT Live that tells you it’s Microsoft. But for now, the data reported is technically correct. A visitor (a web crawler in this case) did arrive on your page and did tell your page that it came from the URL shown. Usually these results are shown as using Internet Explorer 6 with an unknown operating system.
