MSN search not working this AM?

I am having a problem with all the sites I monitor getting MSN results.

When trying to get a single result I get this error:

Caryl

 

That's reassuring to see, as all of my rankings (ALl of them) for multiple sites just wen't to n/a in MSN...

I'm not seeing a warning like you, but I would be *very* surprised if all of the rankings my sites have all suddenly dropped into oblivion.

 

Msn.com is always intermittent for me (mac, firefox/ safari/ uk) - probably their most hated combination. Msn.co.uk works fine though.

SE your rankings appear fine

 

I only get that message when attempting to do them individually, not when doing automated update.

Also, that message does NOT appear in the "error message box" it appears at the very top of the page.

Caryl

 

MSN.com is fine. It is the Keyword Tracker that is having a problem producing the MSN results.

Caryl

 

Good to hear

 

Im trying to debug the advanced script, it chokes on searches on MSN. Google and Yahoo works fine, but MSN chokes. It cant get passed this line :

   $data = get_page ('search.msn.com', '/results.aspx?q=' . urlencode ($_REQUEST['q']) . '&first=' . $start . '&count=10&format=rss');

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Anyone has some info for this?

 

I'm seeing this too this morning
[Edit] The script has been updated, there's a related thread this morning

 

Hmm... It could seem that msn are blocking all request to their server. Tried some other ways of fetching the content but all hangs on search.msn.com, I could fire up snoopy and spoof user agent and referrer to see what MSN then tells me...

Well, we can rule out that. Tried doing a spoof with snoopy with IE as agent and Firefox and agent, with and without a referrer. So for some reason all queries agains search.msn.com chokes, tried three different approaches. digitalpoint original, fopen and fsockopen - all fails.

Strange!

Luckily for me I can quicly modify the search.msn.com to search.msn.no, a little rewrite of the get_page() for MSN and I'm up and running again.

For those living in Norway or possible other alternative search.msn.* domains here is a fix :

Add this function to advanced.script.php somwehere :

  function _fetch($domain,$query){
    $text = '';
    $fd=fopen('http://' . $domain . $query,"r");
    while ($line=fgets($fd,1000)) { $text.=$line; } fclose ($fd);
    return $text;
  }

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Then find this line in the bottom :

   $data = get_page('search.msn.com', '/results.aspx?q=' . urlencode ($_REQUEST['q']) . '&first=' . $start . '&count=10&format=rss');

Code (markup):

and change to :

   $data = _fetch('search.msn.no', '/results.aspx?q=' . urlencode ($_REQUEST['q']) . '&first=' . $start . '&count=10&format=rss');

Code (markup):

Mvh,
Kim Steinhaug
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When the update is available let us know by a sticky or an announcement on the keyword tracker page.