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    March 30

    MSN Search removes functionality

    The following operators can no longer be used:

    link:
    linkdomain:
    inurl:

    Microsoft say that too many automated queries are the reason. Why not just do what Google do, and offer API access and ban any IP address that makes lots of automated queries? Surely that would be a better option than removing functionality from genuine users.

    Rash acts like this are often signs of the beginning of the end....

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