Microsoft recently announced that it's going to ramp up MSNBot 2, which is currently in beta version. Webmasters may now notice the new bot in their log files. The beta version was released in December 2008, and the useragent is similar to the original bot.
New Bot:
msnbot/2.0b (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
Current Bot:
msnbot/1.1 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
The new bot promises a more efficient crawl. Microsoft states:
“We are busy working on our improved crawler and plan to ramp up its workload as we move toward the goal of putting it into full production. As a result, webmasters may begin seeing an increased amount of traffic from the new bot on their sites.â€
Feel free to report any issues about MSNBot 2 at the Bing forum.
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