Search engines
Bingbot
Microsoft's main crawler collecting documents for the Bing search index (deployed 2010, successor to msnbot). Bing's index also underlies Copilot and other engines that license Bing results.
Dossier
- Operator
- Microsoft
- Documentation
- None published
- robots.txt token
bingbot- Feeds
- search index
- Follows robots.txt
- Yes, per its documentationBlockable via robots.txt bingbot group; Bing Webmaster help page did not render for us (JS-only), so robots details come from Wikipedia/Bing blog.
- How to verify
- Published IP ranges and reverse DNSbing.com
- Names in our logs
bingbot- Researched
- 23 Oct 2026
Observed on New Runtime
Baseline 2026-10-23 · 93-day window · loading live numbers…
- Requests
- 3,126
- Days active
- 90 / 93
- First seen
- 23 Jul 2026
- Last seen
- 23 Oct 2026
Regularsearch_crawler
Identity check claimed vs verified
- verified100 reqforward confirmed rdns
- claimed unverified5 reqforward confirmed rdns
What it reads crawler journeys · current window
- Content pages77
- Feeds & discovery7
- Machine-consumption2
69 unique materials · 39 canonical pages
Enters at · 7 days
Leaves from · 7 days
Sources
- en.wikipedia.orgen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingbot
- blogs.bing.comblogs.bing.com/webmaster/2012/08/31/how-to-verify-that-bingbot-is-bingbot
- bing.comwww.bing.com/toolbox/bingbot.json