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
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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
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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
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Microsoft is assuring customers using its adCenter platform that they are not charged for the clicks generated by MSNBot. Rajesh Srivastava, principal group program manager, Bing, responded to discussions pointing out that the Bing crawler clicks on the company’s own adCenter ads. The Redmond company is not den... |
26 August 2009
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Crawl delay is one of the options that webmasters have at their disposal in order to control the search engine bots that are indexing their websites. In order to prevent web server load issues, website owners can delay crawling frequency. This move is necessary in scenarios in which the indexing process of large webs... |
12 August 2009
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The constant evolution of Microsoft's search engine affects all aspects of Live Search, including the crawler. MSNBot, as the Live Search crawler is dubbed, was patched at the end of the past week as a direct consequence of feedback received by the Redmond company. According to the software giant, the move is an... |
22 May 2009
07:36 GMT |
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With Kumo already dogfooded in Redmond, Microsoft has demonstrated a strong commitment to the organic growth of its search engine. However, the evolution of Live Search is not limited to the Kumo search engine tested internally by the software giant. Nathan Buggia and Brett Yount from the Live Search Webmaster Center... |
24 April 2009
07:29 GMT |
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Microsoft is getting ready to introduce its latest move against Google, an overhauled boot for its search engine. While the Redmond company is laboring to reportedly scrap the Live Search brand in favor of Kumo, with a transition of leadership as Qi Lu takes on the new role of president of the Online Services Group, ... |
12 December 2008
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At the end of September 2007, Microsoft introduced the first major evolution to Live Search since the search engine debuted under the Windows Live brand umbrella in 2005. Moving to version 2.0 meant for the Redmond company delivering enhancements to a variety of aspects, making up the Live Search puzzle. However, inc... |
14 December 2007
06:05 GMT |
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