Anyone else has a lot of visits from Microsoft Inc. to his/her profile?
Autor de la hebra: Stanislaw Czech, MCIL CL
Stanislaw Czech, MCIL CL
Stanislaw Czech, MCIL CL  Identity Verified
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Nov 9, 2010

I've noticed in the stats of visitors to my profile that many visits to my profile described as "direct link" come from Microsoft Inc.

I suppose that these must be visits from Mr Bing - is it possible? After all visits from crawlers are not supposed to be visible in this stats.

Cheers
Stanislaw


 
Armand C.
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Bing I suppose Nov 9, 2010

Stanislaw Czech wrote:
I suppose that these must be visits from Mr Bing - is it possible? After all visits from crawlers are not supposed to be visible in this stats.


Well... Yes, if "Mr Bing" hasn't been added in the crawler database on the Proz servers. Or, more likely I'd say, Microsoft changed Bing's identification string and the named database hasn't been updated yet.

I've also seen visits from Microsoft on my profile; looked the IPs up ("reverse DNS lookup") -- turned out to be, indeed, some "search" servers. FWIW, since yesterday I don't see them anymore, so I guess the database was updated.


 
opolt
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I think it's Bing ... Nov 9, 2010

... because I also get these visits on a regular basis and can't really explain them -- given that my profile highlights my interest in the Linux OS .

Personally, these visits don't bother me too much, as they are not too frequent in my case (maybe once per week?). But yeah, it looks like they're not categorized in the correct way.


 
Robert Forstag
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I do not understand why the previous system of filtering web crawler visits was changed Nov 10, 2010

It did not work perfectly, but it was a lot better than being in a position of receiving dozens of crawler visits and then having to take the time to filter each separate one out.

Inconveniently, the crawler visits from a given search engine provider do not come from the same IP address.



[Edited at 2010-11-10 11:22 GMT]


 
Suzan Hamer
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Yes, sometimes 2 or 3 times a day. Nov 10, 2010

Several days a week. The IP address always starts with 207.46.

 
Jared Tabor
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Will see if this one can be added Nov 10, 2010

Thanks for reporting this. I will see about getting it added to the filter.

Jared


 
Jon Peck
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Notes - not all IPs in that range are bots Nov 10, 2010

We do get a lot of traffic from that area; one of the IPs in question resolved to msnbot-207-46-204-243.search.msn.com

NetRange: 207.46.0.0 - 207.46.255.255
CIDR: 207.46.0.0/16
OriginAS:
NetName: MICROSOFT-GLOBAL-NET

However, there are a lot of humans as well in the 207.46 ra
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We do get a lot of traffic from that area; one of the IPs in question resolved to msnbot-207-46-204-243.search.msn.com

NetRange: 207.46.0.0 - 207.46.255.255
CIDR: 207.46.0.0/16
OriginAS:
NetName: MICROSOFT-GLOBAL-NET

However, there are a lot of humans as well in the 207.46 range.

http://www.botsvsbrowsers.com/ip/207.46.?.?/index.html

Best regards,
Jon Peck
ProZ.com Systems Administrator
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lydiar
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will this be 'fixed' ? Jan 11, 2011

I've just found this thread while wondering if there was a reason the microsoft bots are not being excluded on the visitor list.

Is there a plan to handle this issue? My visitors list is currently swamped with the microsoft visits.


 
opolt
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It's becoming a real problem Jan 11, 2011

lydiar wrote:

I've just found this thread while wondering if there was a reason the microsoft bots are not being excluded on the visitor list.

Is there a plan to handle this issue? My visitors list is currently swamped with the microsoft visits.


I was also wondering about this. IMHO, something ought to be done rather soonish. The number of visits from these IP's is definitely on the increase, as compared to autumn last year, and it's already quite a nuisance.


 


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