Microsoft
About
Microsoft is a technology company that develops, licenses, and supports a wide range of computing products and services, including its Windows operating system, Office productivity suite, and Azure cloud services.
Detail
| Website | https://microsoft.com/ |
Agents
Fetchers
Bing Preview is a fetcher operated by Microsoft. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us.
BingPreview generates page snapshots and previews for Bing, creating visual representations of web pages for search results using both desktop and mobile variants.
Microsoft Preview is a fetcher operated by Microsoft. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us.
MicrosoftPreview is a web crawler that generates page snapshots and link previews for Microsoft products and services, extracting metadata and visual content to create rich previews in applications.
Intelligence Gatherers
AdIdxBot is Microsoft's Bing Ads crawler that monitors ads and follows ad destination websites for quality control to ensure advertising standards and policy compliance.
Bing Ads is an intelligence gatherer operated by Microsoft. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us.
Search Engine Crawlers
Bingbot is Microsoft's standard web crawler that handles most of Bing's crawling needs each day, indexing web content for Bing search results using both desktop and mobile variants.
MSN is a search engine crawler operated by Microsoft. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us.
MSNBot is Microsoft's legacy web crawler that indexed web pages for the MSN Search engine, which has since been replaced by Bing's crawling infrastructure, though some references may still appear in logs.
msnbot-media is a search engine crawler operated by Microsoft. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us.