Microsoft's Live Search has been banned from TuscanyCircle for spamming! Live Search has instituted a "referrer spam" campaign for the last several months, upsetting countless webmasters. Apparently, it's some sophomoric attempt to drive traffic to their search engine. Too bad. They're out. I don't even care if they ban TuscanyCircle from their pathetic excuse for a search engine. Legitimate traffic from Live Search approaches nil anyway. I don't need 'em. Note: Live has also been removed from my external-search-engine options.

Their spider bot is not yet blocked, just their referrer spammer. If their spider bot gives me any grief, though, I'm quite willing to block all MS IPs. (Yes, I may lose those poor fools who us MS as an ISP. Good riddance.)

If you search for TuscanyCircle content on Live Search, then click through it to get here, you'll be blocked. To get around this--if you're foolish enough to use Live Search--just go to the address bar and press enter again, effectively changing the referrer.

If you use Live Search, and you're upset by this ban, too bad! I am not funded in any way by this website. It exists for my pleasure and at my expense. Frankly, I don't even care if nobody else ever used it. Everybody is welcome and I encourage participation, but if you want to go away mad, I won't miss you.