After a pretty unlikely suggestion that MSN is somehow grabbing listings from Google, MSN’s forum
poster MSN Dude popped up in a WebmasterWorld.com thread to deny the accusations. That brought out Google’s
long-time forum poster GoogleGuy in the same thread.
A punch up? Not at all. Instead, a chummy welcome to the world of crawling and support that Google thought the accusations didn’t hold water. But in another thread
spotted by Peter Da Vanzo, is GoogleGuy
suggesting that site owners get to work reverse-engineering MSN’s search algorithm?
Well, it’s not unprecedented. Back in 2003, GoogleGuy had some suggestions in terms of search engine
optimization for…AltaVista!