Bot Information for MSN Verified

MSNBot was the web crawler for Microsoft's MSN Search, which has since been replaced by Bing. Its purpose was to index web pages for inclusion in the MSN search engine.

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Microsoft
AccessIndicates who drives the bot's activity. Bots with "direct" access are controlled directly by their operator, while bots with "intermediary" access can be controlled by end users.
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HTTP requests
msnbot/1.1 ( http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
msnbot/2.0b (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
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User-Agent: msnbot/
Disallow: /

HTTP traffic from MSN

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HTTP requests from the specified bot over the selected time period

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