MSN Search Names Their Crawlers

August 3rd, 2006 | RSS Feed

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Finally, MSN came out with naming of their Crawlers used in MSN Shopping, MSN News, MSN Image Search, and MSN Search.

While Google named their crawlers as GoogleBot, MediaBot etc, MSN crawlers have been names as given below-

The MSN Shopping bot is msnbot-products.
The MSN News bot is msnbot-news.
The MSN Image Search bot is msnbot-media.
The MSN Search bot is still just plain msnbot.

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