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"Carl Malamud, a well respected technologist, author, and public domain advocate posted on Twitter that Bing's spider \"got a timeout\" by not playing nice with the IRS database.  It seems that BingBot was a bit too aggressive on their site and they decided to block Bing for some time.Here is the tweet:Bing got a timeout on the IRS database today. Bing was a bad robot. Bing is sitting in a corner, thinking about what it means to play nice.\u2014 Carl Malamud (@carlmalamud) April 25, 2014\r\nThis caught the attention of Google's Matt Cutts  and it drove Carl to add more details:@mattcutts my server isn't huge, fine with well-behaved bots, they got all piggish. (we ban your ftp robot, but for different reasons.)\u2014 Carl Malamud (@carlmalamud) April 25, 2014\r\nIt isn't clear exactly which site Carl decided to block.  He referenced the IRS database.  Bug clearly he is calling BingBot a not well-behaved bot, at least not on April 25th.Forum discussion at Twitter."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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