phpBB Banned at MSN Search ?

dcz · Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 11:23 am Post subject: phpBB Banned at MSN Search ?

hello,

I have been observing the past few days that any search query including "phpbb" on MSN Search just outputs a nice blank page (FF and IE).
And it is the same with MSN France, so it really seem to be something concerning their main database.

I mailed them, with no answers so far, and I am wondering if you experience the same results.

Is phpBB Banned From MSN Search ?

This seems to concern all queries including "phpbb", and "special" search commands such as site:www.phpbb.com.

And it's the same if "phpbb" is part of a bigger word.

Very odd, unless the word "phpbb" was banned from their database, which would be hard to understand, this could come from a bug.

Are there too many results for MSN while searching for "phpbb" ?

I just hope to be wrong in both cases Wink

Because phpbb.com is still findable with MSN.

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Peter77 · Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 5:22 pm Post subject: Re: phpBB Banned at MSN Search ?

I know that at one point even Google 'banned' the keyword phpbb from thier search engine. but that was because of a known vulnerability in phpbb at the time... or so I read.

Seems like MSN search has blocked "phpbb" over at my end too. maybe they are trying to prevent scrpit kiddies from doing mass searches. if I type in "phpbc" it will come out with "Were you looking for phpbb" but of course I get that blank white page after clicking.

dcz · Posted: Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:22 pm Post subject: Re: phpBB Banned at MSN Search ?

All right so it is confirmed from France too. Same effects.

I had also though about some securing policy, but, as a matter of fact, this would be useless if it was only MSN Search to do it.

What a bout Google and Yahoo then, they both will still return results when searching for "phpbb".

And MSN is not the most used Search Engine ...

Unless maybe if the hack concerns phpBB running under IIS Wink

but ...

Actually they could output more than a blank page in all cases I think Very Happy

dcz · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:05 pm Post subject: Re: phpBB Banned at MSN Search ?

it's now possible again Very Happy

I knew msn was going to love this site Laughing

Anyway, all msn servers seems to accept phpbb as a search query now Wink

Peter77 · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:43 pm Post subject: Re: phpBB Banned at MSN Search ?

Sweet glad they allowed it... hey congrats, dcz... your sites are on the first page. I saw one of my MOD requets I made a while back got indexed too. hehe Smile

dcz · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:46 pm Post subject: Re: phpBB Banned at MSN Search ?

it's msn.fr though, but yes that's pretty good, you'll see msn will love you forum as well Wink

dcz · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 10:41 pm Post subject: Re: phpBB Banned at MSN Search ?

And again :

While submiting my SEO report, I went through something like 3 or 4 consecutive Search queries at msn.com to find out how many pages where indexed to fill up my reports. And from now on I only get this :

Peter77 · Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 3:56 am Post subject: Re: phpBB Banned at MSN Search ?

That is strange.. I thought I read somewhere that search.msn.com is in the process of rebuilding thier search or BETA stage? maybe they really are that vulnerable at this time. crazy msn Twisted Evil

dcz · Posted: Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:59 am Post subject: Re: phpBB Banned at MSN Search ?

Actually I recently observed Captcha confirm while performing Searches with Google related to phpBB.

So it seems something is going on search engine wise, but Google seems to filter queries a lot better and is asking for a confirmation code to continue and proceed with results when you see the warning message.

It seems they are all fighting against illegitimate queries, and phpbb is a hot keyword it seems.

Now the thing is, Google method is again a lot more efficient as it's not linked to just searched terms as for MSN and won't block the results upon warning.

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