Hungry bot behind Microsoft's new search
InternetNews | at | by Mike
Noticed a spike in your Web traffic lately? You're not the only one. Webmasters across the Internet have been tracking a surge in spider activity coming from Microsoft's MSNbot over the past few months and sleuthing over what kind of new search offerings the software giant is cooking up.
MSNbot, the generation Web search crawler that Microsoft announced last year, appears to be aggressively crawling the Web as part of the algorithmic search effort to be included at a future point in its newly revised MSN Search portal.