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Bingbot

Bingbot is a Microsoft Bing crawler used to crawl and index pages for Bing and Microsoft search-powered experiences. This record has no current Microsoft source, so treat a matching request as unverified.

Needed to be found and cited in Copilot.

Get the robots.txt ruleRecord source
Is Bingbot allowed on your site?
  • BingbotSearch
    Not checked

Reads your live robots.txt and applies the same rules these crawlers use. Nothing is stored.

robots.txt token
Bingbot
Follows robots.txt
Yes, documented
Seen on
Not measured
Last checked
11 June 2026

Should you block Bingbot?

You can, but it may not listen. Microsoft has not documented Bingbot, so treat any rule as a request. Blocking it affects Bing indexing and can indirectly affect Microsoft Copilot answers that rely on Bing search.

robots.txt
User-agent: Bingbot
Disallow: /

Asks Bingbot not to crawl any page. Add it to the robots.txt file at the root of your site, above any wider rules.

Ignored robots.txt?

Whether to allow Bingbot is a policy call. Either way, check which AI platforms actually send you human visitors before assuming crawl volume equals value.

Spot it in your logs.

Match the name, then check where the request came from. Anyone can copy a user-agent.

Reported user-agentsource
bingbot

This string comes from a public crawler registry or observed naming, not current operator documentation.

  1. 1

    Match the name

    Search your server or CDN log for Bingbot, case-insensitive. A match is a clue, not proof.

  2. 2

    Check the published IP ranges and reverse DNS

    Microsoft also documents reverse DNS: a genuine Bingbot hostname ends in search.msn.com and resolves back to the same address. www.bing.com/toolbox/bingbot.json

Is this really Bingbot?

Addresses and reverse DNS

No log handy?

Paste an address that claims to be Bingbot. It is checked against Microsoft’s published list and its reverse DNS. Nothing is stored.

Check any crawler’s address

Serve the content in HTML

The cited operator material does not verify JavaScript rendering. Serve useful HTML before client-side JavaScript where possible.

Questions, answered.

Bingbot is a Microsoft Bing crawler used to crawl and index pages for Bing and Microsoft search-powered experiences. This record has no current Microsoft source, so treat a matching request as unverified.

Sources.

Reported, not operator verified. Operator facts and Trakkr’s measurements keep separate dates.

  1. [1]
    Reported crawler reference

    Reported, not operator verified · checked 11 June 2026

    learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot-studio/guidance/generative-ai-public-websites

Last source check 11 June 2026.

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