Thinking Id be original, I first titled this post, Changes, they are a-coming. When I Bingd that title, I realized that original isnt the correct descriptor . . . so, I went searching for inspiration to aid in finding words to convey the importance and need for change, and came up with some great quotes, a few of my favorites: Everything changes and nothing remains still - Heraclitus They say that time changes things,

Back in June, 2010, we published a blog post titled Bing crawler: bingbot on the horizon that announced our plans to retire our venerable web crawler, MSNBot, and replace it with the new. Our plans remain on track, and we want to remind you that this change will occur on October 1 st , 2010. We also want to take this opportunity to help set some expectations for this process, to discuss the name change details,

In our continuing efforts to provide great value to our publishers, the Bing Engineering team is constantly testing new features to improve crawl efficiency. Such experiments are vital to our ability to innovate and improve our end user and publisher experience. Due to an upcoming experiment, a few sites may encounter an intermittent increase )anywhere from 5% to 25%( in crawl requests from MSNBot over the next month )specifically from August 25 th through end of September(.

Today, we are announcing the release of new features for the Bing Webmaster tools. These features are a direct response to feedback we've received since our launch last month which was announced in Anthony's " A New Beginning: Bing Webmaster Tools " blog post. The loudest feedback was, "I want to download my data!" . . . so, we've added a new data export capability which enables you to export and download data from Bing Webmaster Tools about your registered sites.

In my last post , I started digging in to the many great new features offered in the new Bing Webmaster Tools . We have so much to talk about that I needed two posts to cover it! Let's get right back in the saddle and ride this horse back home. Note: As in the Tips and Tricks Part 1 post , the features I discuss here are primarily based on the Silverlight version of the new Bing Webmaster Tools. While there is a basic, down level version of the tools available,

I trust by now everyone has heard the big news : the new Bing Webmaster Tools are here! I have been working with it for quite some time now. I like the new look and feel of the Silverlight -based user interface. It is clean, intuitive, and easy to use. As the primary contributor to the tool's documentation, I've had some interesting discoveries as the tools were developed,