Search Engine
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Bingbot

Bingbot is Microsoft's web search crawler that discovers, parses, and indexes web content for Bing Search, Yahoo Search (powered by Bing), and Microsoft Copilot AI synthesis.

Audit Your Site for Bingbot

Technical Specifications

User-Agent Tokenbingbot
Operator / OwnerMicrosoft
Primary PurposeMicrosoft Bing and Copilot web indexing
SEO ImpactCritical for SEO
Respects robots.txtStandard Compliant (RFC 9309)
Reverse DNS Hostnamesearch.msn.com
Official DocumentationOperator Docs

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Bingbot feed Copilot?

Yes, Microsoft Copilot relies on Bing's search index to retrieve current web citations.

How to Allow Bingbotrobots.txt

Ensure this bot can index your public pages for citations.

# Allow Bingbot
User-agent: bingbot
Allow: /
How to Block Bingbotrobots.txt

Prevent this bot from accessing any content on your domain.

# Block Bingbot
User-agent: bingbot
Disallow: /

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