I read that 'bingbot' is replacing 'msnbot' in Oct. I was wondering if 'bingbot' is being supported now? If I use 'bingbot' in my robots.txt now will it be supported or should I use 'msnbot' till Oct?
Thanks
"We want webmasters to know that bingbot will still honor robots.txt directives written for msnbot, so no change is required to your robots.txt file(s). "
bing.com/community/blogs/webmaster/archive/2010/06/28/bing-crawler-bingbot-on-the-horizon.aspx
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I am asking the reverse: will the current msnbot support directives in robots.txt for bingbot before Oct 2010? Is it safe to replace my msnbot directives with bingbot directives?
Not yet, no. Stick with the msnbot directives until bingbot is officially rolled out.
David Felstead / Senior Development Lead / Bing Webmaster Tools