MS Search Bots

Microsoft reports that the names of Live search bots remain the same - MSNBot.

MSNBot - Main web crawler (www.live.com)
MSNBot-Media - Images & all other media (images.live.com)
MSNBot-NewsBlogs - News and blogs (search.live.com/news)
MSNBot-Products - Products & shopping (products.live.com)
MSNBot-Academic - Academic search (academic.live.com)

Host name for them always ends on search.live.com (for example, livebot-207-46-98-149.search.live.com).