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---- MSN's many cloaked bots. Again.

dstiles - 9:28 pm on Aug 18, 2010 (gmt 0)


Basically, if it ain't a known bot UA it's dumped, even if it has a bot IP.

Apropos which, I read somewhere that msnbot is being changed to bingbot soon, wrapped up in a basic mozilla UA. So, no more quick and dirty ^msnbot tests. :(

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