Accoona search engine needs http in URL to query a site

With most search engines, for example with Google or Yahoo, you only need to enter a Web Site URL, even if not exact, to fetch pages of the Web Site or related pages.

For example, if I issue "mqseries.net" on Google or Yahoo, it will return in the first results the following Web Site: http://www.mqseries.net/.

The Accoona search engine does not !

If you forget to add http:// at the beginning of the URL, you will have no results, or bad results such as spamming pages linking to the Web Site you are looking for !

It means that the spamming pages have more credit to Acoonna's eyes than the original Web Site ...

With the search "mqseries.net", it returns nothing !

With the Web Site of a friend of mine, it gives all spamming pages on several result pages before (in the end !) returning the pages of his Web Site !

So, the conclusion is: do not trust Accoona to get fast information on a Web Site ; keep on using Google or Yahoo !

Windows Live does not respect the robots META tag mecanism

When html pages have robots META Tags to add noindex and nofollow parameters, a search engine should not index nor cache the html page.

Having pages like this on my Web Site, I've seen that despite the Robots META Tag they are indexed by the new Microsoft search engine, Windows Live.

Probably Windows Live expects a more specific Robots META Tag with the name msnbot instead of robots ...