{"id":411,"date":"2008-12-12T11:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T18:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/news\/?p=411"},"modified":"2008-12-12T11:33:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T18:33:00","slug":"microsoft-to-begin-testing-updated-search-crawler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/12\/microsoft-to-begin-testing-updated-search-crawler\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft To Begin Testing Updated Search Crawler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced that they will be testing an updated MSNBot, the crawler for MSN\/Live Search, in the coming weeks. The crawler will use the user agent string <em>msnbot\/2.0b (+http:\/\/search.msn.com\/msnbot.htm) <\/em>and will be crawling a slow speed during testing according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/webmaster\/archive\/2008\/12\/11\/another-crawler-in-your-logs.aspx\">post <\/a>on the Live Search Webmaster Center Blog. No details were given as to what updates the crawler has received. MSNBot&#8217;s last update was in February when it began supporting HTTP compression and conditional gets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced that they will be testing an updated MSNBot, the crawler for MSN\/Live Search, in the coming weeks. The crawler will use the user agent string msnbot\/2.0b (+http:\/\/search.msn.com\/msnbot.htm) and will be crawling a slow speed during testing according to a post on the Live Search Webmaster Center Blog. No details were given as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/12\/microsoft-to-begin-testing-updated-search-crawler\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft To Begin Testing Updated Search Crawler&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-search-engines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}