MSN — What It Is and How to Handle It

MSNBot was the web crawler for Microsoft's MSN Search, which has since been replaced by Bing. Its purpose was to index web pages for inclusion in the MSN search engine.

Operator: Microsoft | Type: Search Engine | Category: Search Engine

MSN is a search engine crawler. Blocking it may affect your visibility in its associated search engine. Most publishers choose to allow verified search engine crawlers.

Centinel automatically detects MSN using behavioral fingerprinting. When detected, you can allow it, block it, challenge it with an interstitial page, or set a per-request licensing fee — all enforced in real-time with under 2ms latency.