All crawlers
Bingbot
Operated by Microsoft · Search indexes
Bing search indexing — also feeds Copilot and IndexNow engines.
User-agent token
Bingbotrobots.txt
Documented to honour robots.txt
Allow or block Bingbot
By default every well-behaved crawler is allowed. To block Bingbot specifically, add this to your robots.txt:
User-agent: Bingbot Disallow: /
Official Microsoft documentation
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