Microsoft Live Search Fixes Issue With Listing Google AdWords Ads

December 19, 2007

Earlier today, we reported that over 4 million Google AdSense ads were being indexed by Microsoft Live Search. Tonight, the Microsoft Live Search Webmaster Center blog has posted that they’ve identified and fixed the issue and that search results should return to normal within the next few days.

What happened? Google AdWords URLs are blocked by Google’s robots.txt file with this command:

Disallow: /pagead/

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