MSN Search Imaging down???

I have MSN Search that displays the images of sites that are in my directories and other and eveyone of them are not imaging!!

I see that MSN has changed their site and colors to Red now!!

I wonder if the images will come back??

Anyone else??

 

They might be working on site. They should be back up in no time.

 

Same problem here. Dir scripts need to cache these locally. MSN eventually will get tired of us pulling their thumbs...

 

http://msnsearch.srv.girafa.com/srv/ that generates the thumbnails is not responding

any other free ones out there?

 

Wondering the same thing. Looks like a Major Malfunction!!!!!

 

Heck!! I don't know if they are coming back!!

Is there a new search code that anyone knows??

 

I think the same thing (seo), I think they messed up and they do not know how to fix it. I just happen to know where they can hire a good fixer-upper for that kind of stuff.

 

It possible that they got tired of directory owners eating up their band width.

I don't know of any other free services. Alexa has a service but you have to pay monthly.

 

I heard that WebSnapr is a good freebie!! I am going to check them out and then I will reply back!

 

Have a look at different options presented already in this thread: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=582006

 

Thanks for the heads up

 

I changed some of mine to:
Just changed this code:

http://msnsearch.srv.girafa.com/srv/i?s=MSNSEARCH&r={$link.URL}

To this one adding
artviper.net/screenshots/screener.php? &url=

Works great now. I don't know if we are getting msn back or not so went ahead and changed. Got tired of my sites looking messed up.

 

You can still get the Girafa code for free: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=5484440

 

This one here is better than artviper:

http://open.thumbshots.org/image.pxf?url=

it is fast loading and free to use.

 

You can try mine
http://www.blagoj.com/thumbs/get.php?url= and add your url
This tool is fairly new but II update thumbs every day

 

it's great..and works like MSN..

thanks.

 

Free with a reasonable clause:

In their usage licence - http://www.thumbshots.org/license.aspx they also mention:

I notice you and some others who have moved on from the msn.girafa do not follow the licencing guidelines above.

Basically put, you're sponging again as you did with the msn.girafa thumbshots.

 

I think girafa.com seems to have a problem as I have the same issue on my free account with them atm... Seems to be some issue going around

 

I'm running Girafa with a free account, no problems...