Display MSN Backlinks with PHP

Use this function to display how many backlinks a given website has on MSN. This refers to the number of links that other websites (indexed by MSN) have outgoing.

This number will vary from one datacenter to another or from time to time due to MSN's updates on links and their data.

function msn_backs($url){ 
    $site = fopen('http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=link%3A'.urlencode($url),'r'); 
    while($cont = fread($site,1024657)){ 
        $total .= $cont; 
    } 
    fclose($site); 
    $match_expression = '/<h5>Page 1 of (.*) results<\/h5>/Us'; 
    preg_match($match_expression,$total,$matches); 
    return $matches[1]; 
}

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