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What is bingbot?
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Bing's standard crawler, which handles most of its crawling. Microsoft says pages removed from the Bing index stop appearing in Bing results and in Copilot experiences that rely on Bing's index.
bingbot at a glance
- Operator
- Microsoft
- Kind
- Crawler: fetches on its own schedule
- Used for
- Search index
- Feeds
- Bing search; Copilot experiences that rely on Bing's index
- robots.txt token
bingbot- User agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
- Follows robots.txt
- Yes. Bing: robots.txt can be configured to tell Bing crawlers how to interact with a site.
- Runs JavaScript
- Yes. Bing says it keeps its page rendering engine on the latest stable Microsoft Edge.
- Published IP ranges
- bingbot.json: https://www.bing.com/toolbox/bingbot.jsonCheck an address against these ranges
- Official sources
- Which Crawlers Does Bing Use?https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/which-crawlers-does-bing-use-8c184ec0
- How To Permanently Remove a URL or Page from Bing or Copilothttps://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/how-to-permanently-remove-a-url-or-page-from-bing-or-copilot-37c07477
- How to Verify Bingbothttps://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/how-to-verify-bingbot-3905dc26
- Verified
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bingbot is one of 29 crawlers and fetchers in the AI crawler directory, each checked against its operator's own documentation.