Bingbot

What is Bingbot?

Bingbot is a web crawler operated by Microsoft, used to gather information for building Bing’s searchable web index. It performs a similar function as Googlebot does for Google.

Key Features:

• Launched: October 2010
• Activity: 3rd most active crawler globally, according to Cloudflare Radar
• User Agent Strings:
• Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
• 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/537.36
• Mozilla/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)

Compliance:

• Respects robots.txt rules and nofollow directives.

Additional Bing Crawlers:

• AdIdxBot: Used for Bing Ads.
• BingPreview: Generates page snapshots.