MSN Live Search Indexing URL Fragments

I noticed that MSN was indexing URL fragments. A URL fragment is the part of a URL that comes after a pound sign like this:

http://example.com/page#section

Here is a screenshot.

MSN Live Search URL fragment being indexed

(Sorry, I had to block out part of the URL.)

Google removes the fragments from URLs.

What will the effect be of indexing anchors as separate URLs? Single pages with multiple URLs? Is it just a temporary MSN SERPs bug like this one?

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