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June 11, 2004

First GoogleGuy, then Tim, Now msndude?

From WebMasterWorld: Are you taking the MSNbot Gamble?

Looks like MSN is jumping on the bandwagon for search engine reps on messageboards.

msndude's reply to the above post regarding excessive spidering by MSNBot.

"Some folks have asked whether they should let MSNBot crawl their website? Is it worth it? Well, we are probably biased but we think it is definitely worthwhile :) This data will be used as part of an algorithmic search engine that is being built by Microsoft. Our intention is to allow folks to search on this engine by the end of the year.
With regards to aggressiveness of the crawl: we are definitely learning and improving. We take politeness very seriously and we work hard to make sure that we are fixing issues as they come up. For specific politeness issues we recommend you E-mail us at msnbot@microsoft.com. Either myself or someone from the team will take the time to investigate what is happening and send a reply. We will be posting to this forum to answer general questions about politeness, best practices, and the search engine itself. Look forward to chatting with everyone here.

-msn search dudes (msd)"

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