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sandcrawler - compatibility testing

6:05 pm on Nov 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

131.107.0.83-84

ua= sandcrawler - compatibility testing

tide513.microsoft.com

5:45 am on Nov 19, 2005 (gmt 0)

Came by a couple weeks ago. Took just the index page.

9:10 pm on Dec 4, 2005 (gmt 0)

I didn't see this thread until just now, after I posted one of my own.

I saw the same bot from MS this past week.

It did not read robots.txt but it only took my index page. Normally that would warrant a ban but I'm curious to see what this UA is up to.

BTW, the inability to search the site has pretty much rendered this forum useless for me as a research tool. Such a shame.

7:20 am on Dec 5, 2005 (gmt 0)

BTW, the inability to search the site has pretty much rendered this forum useless for me as a research tool. Such a shame.

I agree. For the time being, Yahoo Search stills works. Find code by following "site search" link at top of page.

(Sorry about off-topic side note)