Comments on: Ignore That Scary MSNbot, It’s Just The Friendly BingBot – Unless It Attacks!

By: Hemanth

Hemanth — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:35:36 +0000

What can go wrong with a web spider?

Simple, it can hit your website over and over again like Denial of Service attack & make it unavailable for humans. Yeah, some Matrix + Terminator mash up .:D

By: Kawika

Kawika — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:41:45 +0000

Micro$oft is scaring me…

By: Realty

Realty — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:54:09 +0000

I still see only the regular MSNBot and MSN Media in my log stats. I use Awstats and I feel it’s not current on the activities of this new crawler.

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By: DavidTan

DavidTan — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:54:09 +0000

i would add visual studio, sql server and .net to that list

By: WulfCry

WulfCry — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:04:40 +0000

aawhw thats nice from Microsoft to report this little bugger comes to visit may we play with it a lill. LOL

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:40:48 +0000

Me too! My visitor logs are being attacked by Bing with false referrals just like the ones you list. This is such a clumsy way to see if websites are cloaking information and it forces webmasters to manually code/script a filter for such referrals as they are indistinguishable from real referrals from Bing.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 22:13:28 +0000

Siegler is notorious for tacking on tacky and irrelevant pictures to all of his posts.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:09:14 +0000

Microsoft is blistering the tube with commercials for the new “decision” engine. This bot makes me curious, too…

By: shane

shane — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:49:37 +0000

I’m very curious as to what is going to happen with this bot.

By: Tomas Markauskas

Tomas Markauskas — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:30:16 +0000

And they all come from microsoft IP adresses and don’t use msnbot as user agent, but IE.

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By: .

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 06:45:25 +0000

No, it’s Brandon.

By: Goodmars

Goodmars — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:49:53 +0000

a self aware bing bot. bingalicious bit.ly/lwpBi

By: worthless_post

worthless_post — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:28:23 +0000

Are you kidding? This is news? And you make us click through the fold to read “We do not anticipate any problems ..”?

Holy crap let’s try to stay focused. I had no idea that TC was so desperate for clicks. Pathetic.

By: mike

mike — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:06:34 +0000

1. if your server is a 486SX, maybe

2. Because of software bugs ? Eeeer… which bot is too dumb to apply the simple rules of robots.txt ?

3. Who is dumb enough to give access to restricted areas to bots, based on the User-Agent string ?

Seriously, bots are a problem when they’re malicious (email harvesting, etc.) but even this king of bots are now better coded and don’t make their job looking like a DoS attack… to prevent beeing detected immediately.

By: Jiah

Jiah — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:45:15 +0000

Technically 3 main issues with Bots:

1. They might hog bandwidth too aggressively and cause a DoS attack

2. They might disobey directives in robots.txt (generally because of software bugs)

3. Spammers and Malicious hackers could emulate the bot and get access to restricted areas of the site, if the webmaster has special access for bots (nothing much MS can do here)

Finally, this is probably the MS way of saying Bing bot is still “beta” and will screw up You might not get a Blue Screen of Death but your website may crash

By: Charles

Charles — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:43:35 +0000

Hopefully we’ll start to see BingBot visit our sites a bit more often… right now out of all the “large” search engine crawlers it appears msnbot hits the site with the lowest frequency.

Time for Bing to ramp it up.

By: 悉尼

悉尼 — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:40:13 +0000

bing bot is just agreeable
not like some crazy yandex…

By: Article Playground

Article Playground — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:38:08 +0000

Why is that picture up there?

By: Article Playground

Article Playground — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:37:48 +0000

fooey!

By: cvos man

cvos man — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:25:38 +0000

I received a lot of referrer spam from MSN and am still getting refer spam from bing.

My logs show lots of generic queries such as:
www. bing.com/search?q=hosting
www. bing.com/search?q=web
www. bing.com/search?q=authenticate
www. bing.com/search?q=flash

Obviously my site does not rank for these generic terms, Microsoft is playing their own game.

By: MK

MK — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:21:15 +0000

Oh the windows live bing bot? I think it just crawls google anyway

By: Mircea @ MyTestBox.com

Mircea @ MyTestBox.com — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 02:13:29 +0000

No, Arnold himself .