Microsoft turns off advanced operators

Microsoft has turned off some advanced operators for their Live Search site. Webmasters who use operators like link: and linkdomain: to learn more about the reach of their websites in Live Search will have to wait a while before Microsoft turns them back on again.

Live Search lead program manager Eytan Seidman said Microsoft has been seeing “what appears to be mass automated usage for data mining�? through the use of those operators. Until they find a way to stop those requests while keeping advanced operators open for legitimate users, webmasters have been shut off from finding more information about their sites on the service.

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