BingAdsAdInsightBot

New msnbot Spawn

[Pfui]

Four hours ago on an ad-free site hitting from:

msnbot-157-56-1-18.search.msn.com
(a.k.a. 157.56.1.18)

robots.txt? Yes BUT with NO UA (so no-go):

"GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 403 "-" "-"

The UA appeared when it went for root in the same second:

"GET / HTTP/1.1" 302 "-" "BingAdsAdInsightBot"

FWIW:

Google sez: "Your search - BingAdsAdInsightBot - did not match any documents." Hmm.

And nada re Bing, ditto Bing Webmaster Tools: [bing.com...]

Momentary test, maybe?

[wilderness]

If you do a google on 'AdInsight', you certainly get a different result.

[lucy24]

"GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1" 403 "-" "-"

Why not let them get robots.txt anyway? Poke a <Files> hole for requests using bad IP ranges, and an [L] line for requests that may be blocked via mod_rewrite. (I take an even easier approach: all my RewriteRules are constrained to some extension or other. But that may not work on your site.)

"GET / HTTP/1.1" 302 "-" "BingAdsAdInsightBot"

Ahem cough-cough-cough what's the 302 for?

Are you on a weird host? I've never seen a log entry that didn't give the response size (%b) after the numerical code (%s).

[Pfui]

lucy:

- If a bot isn't properly programmed to show a UA, real or faux, it isn't worthy of access to any file, imho. Plus 99.999% of no-UA hits aren't real people in real time anyway. Vamoose!

- MS runs so many bots with so many names/versions from so many sources, my blocked ranges could include employees. So just in case, all MS IPs not ignoring basics and/or not known/allowed bots get 302'd to a no-index troubleshooting page.

- Before pasting the log excerpt, I deleted the date, time, and file size as irrelevant (...you sharp-eyed snoop, you:) I thought about changing the 302 to a 403 before posting, but wanted the info presented to be accurate. The bot did not follow the 302. Some do.

[Pfui]

wilderness, I'm not sure if or how "BingAdsAdInsightBot" and "AdInsight" are related.

"AdInsight" per se is now "ResponseTap" providing "voice-centric marketing technology and advanced visitor-level call-tracking to increase sales via the telephone." [crunchbase.com...]

Unless MS/Bing's dabbling in phone call-related analytics vis-a-vis sites? Dunno.

[wilderness]

"voice-centric marketing technology and advanced visitor-level call-tracking to increase sales via the telephone."

The ever-evolving world of the mobile internet.

[keyplyr]

I assume BingAdsAdInsightBot mines data for advertisers of Bing Ads (bingads.microsoft.com)?