According to Live Search Webmaster Center Blog, Live Search is testing an update of MSNBot. This may show a new crawler name in your server log report. The new crawler user agent will appear as:
msnbot/2.0b (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
But msnbot/1.1 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) will still be the primary user agent for Live Search and you will see them in your log report as earlier. According to Live Search Webmaster Center Blog, the updated crwaler will also follow the robots exclusion protocol and there is no need to change or update your Robots.txt file.
For more information you can visit: Live Search Webmaster Center Blog
New Live Search MSNBot Crawler in Your Logs-msnbot/2.0b
Posted by VKS Labels: crawler, live search, msnbot, msnbot crawler
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