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public32
17-06-2003, 12:49/12:49PM
Yesterday there has been about 25 hits from 131.107.3.* where * represents a number between 50-254.

I did a reverse lookup on one of the IP addresses and it resolved to tide8.microsoft.com.

Does Microsoft have a webcrawler of some sort that I don't know about? Has anyone ever seen anything like this? It just seems odd to see visitors from Microsoft on my site.

Thanks

Neo



[Moved from Google forum to here. Please read this (http://www.ihelpyouservices.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7575) for further clarification. - Jill]
AskMeNoQuestions
17-06-2003, 13:11/01:11PM
Could be webproxies maybe?
Hope
17-06-2003, 13:27/01:27PM
Microsoft does have spiders. You see them once in a great while. Recently I have been seeing them more often. They have claimed they want to take on Google, so maybe this is it.
Webmaster T
17-06-2003, 13:31/01:31PM
What UA (User Agent) was it using? Checkout this thread on the
M$ Prototype Crawler (http://www.ihelpyouservices.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8859&highlight=prototype+crawler)
the activity you describe looks like it may be indexing your site. Any info about it's depth and entry point would be much appreciated as I'm the Mod for MSN/Inktomi and this looks like it may be replacing Inktomi at some point.
public32
17-06-2003, 15:38/03:38PM
Okay I did a little more digging in and it looks like that one of the many IP address that hit my site from Microsoft did a search on Google and accessed my site through there. Which I am guessing was a user. but then he/she crawled around my site using 23 other IP addresses. (it seems that everytime he/she visited a page, a new IP address was used)

One of the IP addresses resolves to tide78.microsoft.com. when I do a search for this on google it comes back as a visitor to other sites as well. The user agent was recorded as a IE 6.0.

From the above info, I am concluding that it was an actual user rather than a crawler.
qwerty
17-06-2003, 16:53/04:53PM
I think the crawler MS is experimenting with is called something like MicrosoftPrototypeCrawler. I've seen hits from Tide before, and I was never sure, but I think it's not a bot.