msnbot — What It Is and How to Handle It

msnbot is Microsoft's legacy web crawler that indexed web pages for the MSN Search engine, which has since been replaced by Bing's crawling infrastructure, though some references may still appear in logs.

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

msnbot 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 msnbot 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.