Microsoft flooding sites with fake traffic

Ed lawson elawson at grizzy.com
Thu Feb 21 08:25:03 EST 2008


On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:34:53 -0500
"Ben Scott" <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:



>   Those two both seem rather unlikely.  In particular, remember
> Hanlon's razor.   My guess is some kind of crawler robot.

>   You block Google from indexing your site, too, then, right?
> 

FWIW

I know nothing from the technical side of this, but I mentioned this to
someone who works at MSFT and their first comment was that it was
likely Live Search crawling to build an index.

Ed Lawson


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