Live.com Link Command Currently Offline

Mar 26, 2007 at 9:53am ET by Barry Schwartz

The Microsoft Live.com link command operator is currently offline and has been offline since yesterday morning. Kevin Gibbons reported yesterday that a link:http://www.msn.com returns a blank page. I tested more examples and have seen it down since at least 5:27 AM (EST) yesterday morning. All other searches seem to work, including a site command.

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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ONE COMMENT ON Live.com Link Command Currently Offline

ArtMedia, June 7th, 2007 at 2:58 pm ET:

Someone knows what is the new command? and why old command works with some sites, because with for example: http://www.ticas.co.cr, it doesn’t work…

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