search indexes
Bingbot
Operated by Microsoft · Search indexes
Microsoft's long-running search crawler, indexing pages for Bing and, by extension, Copilot.
When Bingbot shows up in your logs
Bing is indexing your page for its results and for Copilot.
Discovery crawlers that keep a search or answer index fresh.
Allow or block it in robots.txt
A robots.txt entry is a request. Well-behaved crawlers honor it; it is not an enforcement mechanism.
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