Msnbot

{{Short description|Web crawler used by MSN Search (2004–2010)}} '''Msnbot''' was a web-crawling robot (type of internet bot), deployed by Microsoft to collect documents from the web to build a searchable index for the MSN Search engine. It went into beta in 2004, and had full public release in 2005. The month of October 2010 saw the official retirement of '''msnbot''' from most active web crawling duties and its replacement by bingbot.<ref>Steve Tullis, [http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/webmaster/archive/2010/09/29/bingbot-the-sequel.aspx Bingbot, the Sequel] Webmaster Center blog, Bing Community, September 29, 2010</ref>

As of September 2015, '''msnbot''' was still active from the Microsoft and the Bing webmaster help & howto documentation still indicated that msnbot was active (but that it would retire soon).<ref>[http://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/which-crawlers-does-bing-use-8c184ec0 "bing - Meet our crawlers"], Microsoft, 21/Mar/2014</ref> The verification tool for bingbot<ref>[http://www.bing.com/toolbox/verify-bingbot "Verify Bingbot"], Microsoft, 21/Mar/2014</ref> previously did not recognise '''msnbot''' IP addresses. A test executed on 2016-02-22 resulted in a yes: "Verdict for IP address 157.55.39.150: Yes - this IP address is a verified Bingbot IP address. Name: msnbot-157-55-39-150.search.msn.com."<ref>[https://godlikebots.com/dark-war-survival-bot/ Dark War Survival Gathering Bot]</ref>

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Category:Internet bots Category:Web crawlers Category:Microsoft software