October 26, 2009

There was one post published on October 26, 2009.

More MSN search bot shenanigans

Got more funny hits this morning from MSN’s search bot (emphasis mine):

65.55.104.132 – – [26/Oct/2009:10:20:24 -0400] “GET /2009/03/06/sailing-this-weekend/ HTTP/1.1” 200 4398 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; SLCC1; .NET CLR 1.1.4325; .NET CLR 2.0.40607; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.2)”
65.55.104.132 – – [26/Oct/2009:10:20:25 -0400] “GET /wp-content/themes/mtdotnet/style.css HTTP/1.1” 200 10345 “http://www.markturner.net/2009/03/06/sailing-this-weekend/” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; SLCC1; .NET CLR 1.1.4325; .NET CLR 2.0.40607; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.2)”
65.55.104.132 – – [26/Oct/2009:10:20:25 -0400] “GET /wp-includes/js/comment-reply.js?ver=20090102 HTTP/1.1” 200 786 “http://www.markturner.net/2009/03/06/sailing-this-weekend/” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; SLCC1; .NET CLR 1.1.4325; .NET CLR 2.0.40607; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; InfoPath.2)”

The IP address 65.55.104.132 resolves to msnbot-65-55-104-132.search.msn.com.

I’m about ready to kick MSN off my sites permanently.

Update 10:41: Done. MSN is no longer welcome at my site. I’ve never banned a search engine before but this is inexcusable behavior and Microsoft should know better.