msnbot = 3* Googlebot

Lars mentioned something to me today that reminded me to check my access lots. Fortunately, Dreamhost runs them all through Analog for me.

What’d I find? Not a whole lot of interest, except for my user agent log. For the current month (June), the MSN search bot (user agent “msnbot”) has outpaced the Google search bot (user agent “Googlebot”) 1252 requests to 409! I just have to wonder what on earth the MSN bot is looking for. It’s not like this site has a ton of content and what little content it does have rarely changes.

Is anyone else having a similar msnbot experience?

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