Here is one of many run-of-the-mill Bing spiders with their typical User Agent:
msnbot/2.0b (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) msnbot-207-46-12-236.search.msn.com 207.46.12.236 In this example, the User Agent is: "msnbot/2.0b (+http://search.msn...
If you want the instructions to apply to all spiders, you can use an asterisk on the first line: User-agent: * You can also identify specific spiders to allow or disallow, such as googlebot, Yahoo's slurp, or Microsoft's MSNbot.
Microsoft On How To Let MSNBot In, Keep Bad Bots Out The Live Search Blog described how you can verify if the MSNBot you see crawling your site, is truly the MSNBot from Microsoft or some rogue spider trying to steal your content.
The Live Search Blog described how you can verify if the MSNBot you see
crawling your site, is truly the MSNBot from Microsoft or some rogue spider
trying to steal your content. Microsoft On How To Let MSNBot In, Keep Bad Bots Out
The Live Search Blog described how you can verify if the MSNBot you see crawling your site, is truly the MSNBot from Microsoft or some rogue spider trying to steal your content. Microsoft has added a way to look up the reverse DNS information for...
If you want to just exclude MSN use msnbot" CONTENT="NOODP"> if you just want to exclude Google use . Keep in mind, it takes time for Google to spider your pages and then determine if you do not...
The analysis covers Yahoo Slurp, Googlebot and MSNbot crawling 2 billion pages structured in a binary tree over 1 year. Ever wonder how spider/bots/crawlers behave? Well, if you did a new analysis "On Bots" was released at http://drunkmenworkhere...
Microsoft's MSN Search site posted a large list of jobs in May, then drew much attention last month when official information about its own search spider "MSNBOT" was posted to the public. The excitement in June came because general information...
Microsoft's MSN Search site posted a large list of jobs in May, then drew much attention last month when official information about its own search spider "MSNBOT" was posted to the public. The excitement in June came because general information...
Microsoft's MSN Search site posted a large list of jobs in May, then drew much attention last month when official information about its own search spider "MSNBOT" was posted to the public. In This Issue