Duane from Bing has announced some cool new features for Bing Webmaster Tools – Bing for some reason told us they nicknamed this update the Honey Badger update.
In any event, the update touches on more flexible crawl delays and controls. A new improved index explorer and a better way to manage user access to the control and reports within Bing Webmaster Tools.
Crawl delay configurable by the hour:
Users can ask us to crawl slower during peak business hours and have us crawl faster during off-peak hours
Simple drag-and-drop functionality allows you to create a crawl graph by clicking and dragging your mouse pointer across the graph. You can easily fine tune by clicking individual columns, too.
Feature enables dedicated pre-set crawl settings for AJAX websites
Index Explorer Revamp:
Freshness
Performance
Extensibility
Reduced machine footprint
Stability and failure detection
New sites will have Index Explorer data the moment they sign up
User and role management
Site owners can now grant admin, read / write, or read-only access to other users for their site using their existing verification code
They can also grant users access to parts of their sites (subdomains or folders)
Plus, Bing improved and added more documentation for Webmasters.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
