Search Engines

Bingbot Checker

bingbot · Microsoft · Last reviewed: 2026-10-01

Overview

Purpose

Microsoft Bing search crawler.

Exact user-agent token

bingbot

robots.txt

Allow example

User-agent: bingbot
Allow: /

Block example

User-agent: bingbot
Disallow: /

Important limitation

A robots.txt verdict describes the published rule for the tested path. It does not prove crawling, indexing, training, citations or traffic.

Frequently asked question

Does this rule control every product from the same operator?

No. Operators can publish separate user-agent tokens for training, search and user-triggered retrieval. Configure each documented token intentionally.

Official source

Microsoft documentation ↗