http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rholloway/archive/2004/03/03/83293.aspxI know that everyone has experience with poor search results, but this one is downright ridiculous. When looking at my referrers recently, I found that if you search MSN for the terms Longhorn release date , this site is the number one result. What aen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rholloway/archive/2004/03/03/83293.aspx#101380Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:18:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:101380Stephen Johnston1. RSS feeds on sidebars <br>2. Blog aggregators <br>3. interlinking craze <br> <br>It used to be creating a link to something involved a mental/time commitment to do so, so the 'link as indicator of relevance' made some sense. Now you have a ton of automated, low effort link creation, and the 'link as indicator' is becoming less true. Essentially it is having almost the same effect as what you might imagine from 1 search engine indexing another search engine.<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=101380" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rholloway/archive/2004/03/03/83293.aspx#100862Mon, 29 Mar 2004 05:01:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:100862Robert ScobleWell, now we know who to leak the release date to! :-) <br> <br>Who said this isn't the best site to find that kind of information?<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=100862" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rholloway/archive/2004/03/03/83293.aspx#100831Mon, 29 Mar 2004 03:58:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:100831Randy Holloway's Weblog<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=100831" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rholloway/archive/2004/03/03/83293.aspx#83439Wed, 03 Mar 2004 23:08:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:83439Randy H.David, <br> <br>I'm definitely with you- I do use Google. But apparently some of the people showing up at this site are referred by MSN, and I can't ignore those readers. :) <br><div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=83439" width="1" height="1">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rholloway/archive/2004/03/03/83293.aspx#83413Wed, 03 Mar 2004 22:10:00 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:83413David BossertSo I've been sitting here trying to think of a funny and/or sarcastic way to tell you to dump that crap and use Google, but I'm tired and the words won't come. Use Google, dude.<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=83413" width="1" height="1">