msnbot
by Microsoft
Crawls pages for a traditional search index, which is what lets them rank.
Legacy Microsoft crawler used for search indexing, now largely superseded by Bingbot.
What it usually means
An older Microsoft crawler fetched this page for the Bing index.
How to identify it
msnbot User-agent: msnbot How it's verified
157.55.39.0/24207.46.13.0/2440.77.167.0/2413.66.139.0/2413.66.144.0/2452.167.144.0/2413.67.10.16/2813.69.66.240/2813.71.172.224/28139.217.52.0/28 1 IP source configured
.search.msn.com Sources
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