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MSN Live Ripe For Duplicate Content?

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Most of us understand how damaging duplicate content can be to a successful search marketing campaign and because of that, most search marketers do what they can to avoid these penalties, which can be pretty severe. There have been mistakes based on session ids and other dynamic content issues, but for the most part, duplicate content is quite easy to stay away from, that is until someone figured out a hole in the MSN Live Search algorithm.

Once MSN has managed to find the new URL’s it will start to index the site’s content. Unfortunately for your competitor; MSN’s anti-spam algo is so bad that its does not have the brains to just not count the new URL’s because of dupe content, but instead just removes the page or entire website from it’s index.
Now I haven't tested this theory, and I'm not about to. But if this indeed accurate, and judging by the responses at

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