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Anybody seen MS Search crawler?

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scareduck

2:14 am on Jan 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Anybody else received heavy crawls from a bot with the user agent string "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows NT; MS Search 4.0 Robot) Microsoft"? We're getting it hard and heavy from an IP that reverse resolves to definite MS address space.

jeremy goodrich

3:09 am on Jan 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Haven't seen that one myself...interesting. Wonder if that will be the MS solution to dumping INK -> doing it themselves? Hm....I keep expecting them to change any day now...

Key_Master

4:22 am on Jan 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

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It's an old agent. I've had it blocked for over a year now.

scareduck

7:25 am on Jan 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Interesting, Keymaster. Why do you block it?