] July 1, 2004 ] Hungry Bot Behind Microsoft's New Search ] ] Webmasters across the Internet have been tracking a surge ] in spider activity coming from Microsoft's MSNbot over ] the past few months and sleuthing over what kind of new ] search offerings the software giant is cooking up. ] ] MSNbot ... appears to be aggressively ] crawling the Web as part of the algorithmic search effort ] to be included at a future point in its newly revised MSN ] Search portal. ] ] In a sample of ... Website traffic logs ..., we saw a substantial ] increase in activity by its MSNbot crawler in May. In ] most cases, the number of visits more than doubled. The ] activity increased in June though by a smaller ] percentage. Hungry Bot Behind Microsoft's New Search |