October 1st, 2010 was not synonymous with the death of t6he old crawler associated with Microsoft’s search engine, despite the company’s previous announcements. It appears that the software giant has had a small change of heart, and is allowing MSNBot to survive a little longer, although it is moving ahe... |
4 October 2010 05:12 GMT |
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MSNBot will only get to live for less than a month, as starting with October 1st 2010, it will be discontinued in favor of its replacement Bingbot. Microsoft has announced the change for quite some time, but provided an additional reminder as the death of MSNBot is getting closer and closer. Come October 2010, Bing... |
6 September 2010 06:37 GMT |
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It turns out that Microsoft is indeed boosting the crawl rate of the bot associated with its search/decision engine. Earlier this week, based on a Microsoft adCenter report, I told you that the Redmond company was kicking up a notch the speed at which the Bing crawler visited websites. It was a small case of miscommu... |
27 August 2010 07:04 GMT |
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Microsoft has increased the rate at which the bot for adCenter crawls websites. According to the Redmond company, the move is designed as a part of larger efforts to boost the relevance of advertising campaigns ran through Microsoft adCenter. In this regard, advertisers should expect to see a lot more traff... |
24 August 2010 04:44 GMT |
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Back in November 2009, Microsoft announced that plans to kill MSNBot 1.1, as it was unveiling the new crawler (bot), MSNBot 2.0b. Since then, the company has been hard at work catalyzing the evolution of the Bing web crawler. At this point in time, the bot for the Bing search/decision engine, continues to remain in B... |
1 July 2010 07:11 GMT |
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