MS
MSNBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTLegacy Microsoft crawler formerly used by MSN Search. Replaced by BingBot but still occasionally active.
Identification
Bot name
MSNBot
Category
Search Engine Crawler
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
User-agent patterns
msnbotUser-agent strings
msnbot/2.0b (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
msnbot-media/1.1 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm)
Block or allow MSNBot
Block it
Add a Disallow rule for msnbot in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.
# Block MSNBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: msnbot Disallow: / # Allow MSNBot full access User-agent: msnbot Allow: /
Allow & verify
Ensure your robots.txt allows msnbot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
Traffic & trends
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From the community
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Links & references
Data sources
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Last updated September 8, 2026
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