Has anyone noticed this in their visitors list: Host: 2.67-19-10.reverse.theplanet.com Agent: TestCrawler/1.0 (testcrawler@hotmail.com)?
PS: I've sent an email to the Microsoft PR in Montréal. I'll keep you posted with regular updates.

Update - June 2nd - I just got this email:

Hi,
I am testing some search engine software and wanted to let it crawl normal
web data. I put a hotmail email address in the user-agent to make sure that
people could contact me if there was a problem with how the crawler was
crawling their site. I didn't want to put a real email address in there
because logs tend to make it onto the web which would really add to the
horrible amount of spam that I receive.
Did the crawler do anything bad to your site or did you just email because
you noticed it in the logs?
Cheers,
Chris.

Guess that answers my questions :-)))

Update - May 31st - According to Microsoft, there is no Hotmail bot. Since I'm curious to see who testcrawler@hotmail.com is, I've just sent an email. I'll keep you posted.

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