jellegaa - 12:55 pm on Sep 18, 2007 (gmt 0)

I am posting as administer of around 200 commercial sites. My tasks include human behavioural tracking. In this case it is very important to filter out any robotic traffic.

For several weeks I have been annoyed by this "quality check" as it imposes it self as real behaviour with full fledge browser capabilities and a standard user agent. All of the sudden my customers are all excited over getting all this search engine traffic from Live Search – which they are in fact NOT.

I am very very close to just block out all Microsoft traffic in the 65.55.165.* segment now! So Live-guys, please, PLEASE state in the user agent that this is robotic traffic, e.g. "Live Search Quality Check Robot" or what ever, and by that give us a chance to deliver correct data to our customers.

Regards
Jesper