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Have we been attacked? Has Bing risen from the dead to sing White Christmas to us?

You been at the cooking sherry again???

No, I saw it as well Kaz but didn't have time to ask.
It came up in grey at the bottom there, a bit worrying

I'll ask Mick later

I don't have sherry.... tsk.

Thank's Di, I knew that I wasn't going mad.

It was a C&P Kaz. I just happened to notice.

Can't see it....anyone?

No, it went Gal, soon after it appaeared

It's back...
Bing [Bot]

bingbot
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bingbot is a web-crawling robot (type of internet bot), deployed by Microsoft to supply Bing (search engine). It collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for the Bing (search engine). It replaced msnbot as the main Bing Crawler on October 2010.
A typical user agent string for bingbot is " Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)". This appears in the web server logs to tell the webmaster who is requesting a file. Each webmaster is able to use the included agent identifier, "bingbot", to disallow or allow access to their site (by default access is allowed). If they don't want to grant access they can use the Robots Exclusion Standard to block it (relying on the assumed good behaviour of bingbot), or use other server specific means (relying on the web server to do the blocking).
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It means that the Bing search engine has had a look at our site. Bing is a bit like google and yahoo........

Mick says it isn't a threat

ETA Thanks Nanna xx