Reading up at help.live.com, I see this: link: Finds sites that have links to the specified website or domain. This is useful for determining who links to whom. For example, to find pages that contain the word games and that link to Microsoft.com, type games link:microsoft.com. linkdomain: Finds sites that link to any page within the specified domain. Use this keyword to determine how many links are being made to a specific page, as well as how those links are made. For example, to see pages that link to Microsoft, type linkdomain:micosoft.com. linkfromdomain: Finds sites that are linked from the specified domain. Use this keyword to determine how many links are being made from a specific page, as well as how those links are made. For example, to see pages that are linked from Microsoft, type linkfromdomain:micosoft.com. Try any of those commands at live.com or msn.com -- they are all broken.
Yes, these commands are disabled since a couple of month ago. Maybe they are doing some updates on it, time to wait...
They just come across as they dont care for me, or maybe they are just that less talented then their competition.
This is discussed earlier and they also made an official announcement that they were taking it down, because of some 'suspected' bots using their Bandwidth !! Man they need to grow ~G
Amazing how they have this hooked up to their new browser and still they can't get any market share.... The only people reporting live.com to grow are Alexa and the results appear to come from a limited sample of users only....
Yes I remeber that their directory got broken very fast also. I remember that some webmasters were praising the msn directory as a rival to Yahoo and DMOZ but it quickly got screwed up. It is interesting, because Microsoft has always had plenty of bugs in their software and tech support areas also, but I guess with search engines you can just roll over to the big G if you don't like MSN. Direct competition.