Trouble with MSN Live API
MSN Live API has been giving erroneous results lately. I have contacted them in order to resolve this issue. Domains entered in all lowercase may not be properly parsed by Estibot, and MSN has been erroneously giving millions of search results for terms such as “allvoipcalls”, “headsofstate”, “wewillrockyou” and so on. This has resulted in overestimations of value. As a temporary solution, I have coded a filter to try to catch these errors and divide the results by 1,000 to avoid these overestimations. MSN seems to give proper results for properly parsed keywords, so you can avoid this issue by always designating the keywords by KeywordCapitalization (works in single and bulk tools) or separating the keywords with a space (works only in single tool). Also, Estibot’s own search database will often give extensive data if the keywords are parsed properly. In summary, in the single appraisal tool, please enter domains in any of the following formats: all voip calls.com heads of state.com AllVoipCalls.com HeadsOfState.com In the bulk tool, please enter: AllVoipCalls.com HeadsOfState.com Please note that MSN API has also been very slow lately and is causing delays in the appraisals. Needless to say, I am looking hard at dropping MSN API from Estibot and trying to find an alternative solution that would serve you better.
Posted: April 5th, 2008 under Estibot Pro.