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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.
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Agents
Fetchers
Bing Preview
Bing Preview is a fetcher operated by Microsoft. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please let us know.
Fetcher
Retrieves web page metadata to power app features like link previews or feeds
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BingPreview
BingPreview generates page snapshots and previews for Bing, creating visual representations of web pages for search results using both desktop and mobile variants.
Fetcher
Retrieves web page metadata to power app features like link previews or feeds
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Microsoft Preview
Microsoft Preview is a fetcher operated by Microsoft. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please let us know.
Fetcher
Retrieves web page metadata to power app features like link previews or feeds
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MicrosoftPreview
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.
Fetcher
Retrieves web page metadata to power app features like link previews or feeds
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SkypeUriPreview
SkypeUriPreview is Skype's link preview bot that fetches page content when users share URLs in Skype messages, extracting metadata to display rich previews with titles, descriptions, and thumbnails.
Fetcher
Retrieves web page metadata to power app features like link previews or feeds
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Intelligence Gatherers
adidxbot
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.
Intelligence Gatherer
Analyzes web content for brand safety, competitive insights, and ad targeting
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Bing Ads
Bing Ads is an intelligence gatherer operated by Microsoft. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please let us know.
Intelligence Gatherer
Analyzes web content for brand safety, competitive insights, and ad targeting
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Search Engine Crawlers
bingbot
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.
Search Engine Crawler
Systematically scans and indexes web pages to include in search results
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MSN
MSN is a search engine crawler operated by Microsoft. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please let us know.
Search Engine Crawler
Systematically scans and indexes web pages to include in search results
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msnbot
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.
Search Engine Crawler
Systematically scans and indexes web pages to include in search results
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msnbot-media
msnbot-media is a web crawler operated by Microsoft that specifically focuses on indexing media content for MSN Search. This bot discovers and collects images, videos, and multimedia files as part of Microsoft's search engine services.
Search Engine Crawler
Systematically scans and indexes web pages to include in search results
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