Webmaster<title> http://www.webmaster.com.au All things Web Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:57:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 New Bingbot is coming October 1st http://www.webmaster.com.au/new-bingbot-is-coming-october-1st/ http://www.webmaster.com.au/new-bingbot-is-coming-october-1st/#comments Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:50:54 +0000 admin http://www.webmaster.com.au/?p=10 As Bing have been saying for a while the new Bingbot is coming 1st OCtober according to post.

Name change

As of October 1st, you’ll start seeing the following user agent name in your server logs:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0 +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)

The old HTTP header From field, currently seen as:

From: msnbot(at)microsoft.com

will be renamed to the following:

From: bingbot(at)microsoft.com

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