Ignore That Scary MSNbot, It’s Just The Friendly BingBot - Unless It Attacks!
July 17, 2009 at 18:50 PM EDT
Microsoft has a post today on its Bing Community blog alerting website owners that they may start seeing a lot of pings from the user agent "msnbot/2.0b (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)". Not to worry, they say, despite the scary MSN Web 1.0-name, this is just the BingBot, crawling sites, doing its indexing job. While Microsoft has updated the bot's version number (from 1.1), it isn't changing the name, it notes. But what's interesting is the part of the post from Microsoft that reads:
