Now that Bing Webmasters tools are fully functional by accepting the site submissions and sitemaps, Microsoft formally announced their webcrawler to grow up in order to support their new search engine Bing, which is growing at a steady pace competing against Google and Yahoo. Even though, it has ages to crawl the entire net and index the keywords and store the webpages just like Google does, the webmasters around the world are already seeing the Microsoft Crawlers in their logs which means that the sites are being indexed at a healthy rate.
From the past few weeks, webmasters are able to see a new crawler msnbot/2.0b (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) which is in addition to the old Live Search primary user agent msnbot/1.1 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm). Now, now, don’t hurry and try to update your Robots.txt file as the new crawler takes ages to move around at alarming pace. And when it does replace the current crawler which is msnbot/1.1, webmasters would get to know the same from the Bing Webmaster Forums.
Microsoft Bing would be the closet competitor of Google. but i still use Google because it shows more relevant results on the serp.
hi i have had my blog on word press for a week now http://www.diyanswerdirect.com/blog but nothing is showing it up in google, aswell as my site http://www.diyanswerdirect.com has been crawled but nothing has been updated can anyone tell me when google updates its pages thsnka lee
@Lee: Week is not a sufficient time to get crawlers see the site. I suggest you submit your XML sitemap to Google Webmaster tools.