bingbot
by Microsoft
Search indexes · Discovery
Bing's search crawler. The Bing index also powers Copilot answers and several AI search products.
Crawlers that build the search indexes used by search engines and AI search features.
Control it with robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers read robots.txt before crawling. To block bingbot on your whole site:
robots.txt
User-agent: bingbot Disallow: /
Blocking AI search and answer crawlers can also remove your pages from AI answers and citations. Weigh traffic from AI assistants before blocking them. Official documentation: www.bing.com.