Known bots · Microsoft
What is Bingbot?
Microsoft’s search engine's crawler. tidekeeper knows it by its User-Agent, and checks each read against the addresses Microsoft publishes.
- Run by
- Microsoft
- Reads for
- Search engine
- Known by
- “bingbot” in its User-Agent, and Bingbot in robots.txt
- Its addresses
- Microsoft publishes them: www.bing.com/toolbox/bingbot.json. tidekeeper checks every read against the list.
- Its owner’s page
- www.bing.com/webmasters/help/which-crawlers-does-bing-use-8c184ec0
Keep it out
User-agent: Bingbot Disallow: /
Or only part of the site: Disallow: /private/ under the same User-agent line.
On tidekeeper.eu
Bingbot read tidekeeper.eu 27 times in the last 30 days, as tidekeeper counts its own site, from its server.