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movierchives:
I know this is an oldish thread but I've found the answer and it may come in handy to others.
The bot is bingbot, user agent bingbot
Why Microsoft need two different bots to index is beyond me but thats it
MrPhil:
--- Quote from: movierchives on July 10, 2012, 11:46:16 AM ---Why Microsoft need two different bots to index is beyond be but thats it
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Probably two rival groups at MS fighting it out to get atop the "stack rankings" and live, while the enemy group is killed off.
Arantor:
Define 'two different bots'. MSNbot used to be called MSNbot, now it's called Bingbot because they renamed their search engine to be called Bing instead of MSN Live Search.
movierchives:
--- Quote from: Arantor on July 10, 2012, 12:33:57 PM ---Define 'two different bots'. MSNbot used to be called MSNbot, now it's called Bingbot because they renamed their search engine to be called Bing instead of MSN Live Search.
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Simple really, I get indexed by the msnbot, msn agents and now the bingbot too
Arantor:
Genuine Bing bots all use bingbot, most of the 'MSN agents' aren't really MSN but spammer bots. Even some of the Bing bot requests I see aren't really Bing.
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