Msnbot
Encyclopedia
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 and its replacement by bingbot
.
Internet bot
Internet bots, also known as web robots, WWW robots or simply bots, are software applications that run automated tasks over the Internet. Typically, bots perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive, at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human alone...
), deployed by Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
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 and its replacement by bingbot
Bingbot
bingbot is a web-crawling robot , deployed by Microsoft to supply Bing . It collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Bing . It replaced msnbot as the main Bing Crawler on October 2010.A typical user agent string for bingbot is " Mozilla/5.0 "...
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