Seems like Microsoft either experiences some problems with its queries processing or plans to re-build its services structure. The latest news that alarmed the whole SEO community was the post in Live Search official blog that they have disabled the link:, linkdomain: and inurl functionalities in the search engine.
For those of you who use some of the advanced query syntax in our search engine such as link:, linkdomain: and inurl:, you may have noticed that this functionality has been recently turned off. We have been seeing broad use of these features by legitimate users but unfortunately also what appears to be mass automated usage for data mining. So for now, we have made the tough call to block all queries with these operators.
We are doing our best to get this back online as soon as possible in a manner that allows folks that use this functionality for real queries. We have a few good ideas up our sleeve on how to enable this, but want to make sure we are making the right changes that will give you the functionality you want and all of our customers the experience they deserve.
As well as many other SEOs I’ve been frequently using these functions of Live Search and greatly hope they’ll be turned on (and maybe even enhanced) quite soon. It would be smart if link:, linkdomain: and inurl queries will be available within a special tools section too.
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July 15th, 2007 at 12:10 am
I have visited your site 698-times