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MSNBot 1.1 is retired

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MSNBot 1.1 is retired
Bing Webmaster Center team
November 5, 2009

The Bing team has been talking about its new crawler (aka bot), MSNBot 2.0b, in this blog for quite some time now. We have made numerous improvements in its performance, addressed some webmaster concerns, and published detailed information on how to control the bot with a robots.txt file. Today we are announcing that the new bot is fully operational. This development will enable Bing to do a better job at gathering the information we need from the myriad of websites we index worldwide.

As MSNBot 2.0b enters full-scale production, the time has come to retire our previous generation bot, MSNBot 1.1. By the end of the first week in November, you will no longer see the following user agent in your referrer logs:

Code:
msnbot/1.1 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)

The only Bing user agent you will see in your logs from this point forward will be this, our new bot:

Code:
msnbot/2.0b (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
 
Its a good development but MSN have not yet indexed my blog after about two weeks of submiting my blog url to them.
 
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