Funny but true. For the last few weeks I’ve been getting weird hits in my search referrals. For those not in the know this blog, as with a lot of websites, logs statistics about visitors to the site such as IP address, what browser you are using, where you have come from and if you have come from a search engine, what you searched for. The what you searched for bit is of particular interest to me as it is nice to know what search hits are generating traffic to my site.
However recently, in the search hits I’ve been getting hits from live search searching for mundane topics such as “email” “awareness” “police” “today” “yourself” etc etc etc. Initially it wasn’t too annoying but now it is getting to the point where it is happening several times a day so I did some digging. The IP addresses used were always in the range of 65.55.165.xxx which a look up tells me is owned by microsoft. A google led me HERE where it seems this is part of some quality test by microsoft.
Quite what they are checking the quality of I am unsure but they really need to do it on their own bandwidth. People are already blocking the IP range from accessing their servers and if microsoft aren’t careful they will find themselves unable to access any of the internet in order to index it
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