Bingbo
Search Engineby Microsoft
Bingbot
Microsoft's primary search crawler for Bing, Microsoft Copilot, and related AI products. Bingbot indexes content used in Bing Search results and powers Microsoft's AI answer features.
Respects robots.txt
Yes
Can be blocked
Yes
Crawl-Delay support
Yes
Type
Search Engine
Purpose
Bing Search, Microsoft Copilot, and Bing-powered AI indexing
SEO Impact
Important for Bing Search visibility and Microsoft Copilot citations. Bing has a ~3% global search market share, higher in enterprise and desktop environments.
User-Agent String
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
robots.txt Control
Add "User-agent: bingbot" with "Disallow: /" in robots.txt. Bing also supports Crawl-Delay.
Block
User-agent: Bingbot Disallow: /
Allow (default)
User-agent: Bingbot Allow: /
Official Documentation
Test your robots.txt against Bingbot
Check which paths are blocked or allowed for each user-agent