AI agent directory / Bingbot
Bingbot
Crawler from Microsoft
Crawls pages for Bing search, which also grounds Copilot answers.
| Run by | Microsoft |
|---|---|
| Type | Crawler |
| Purpose | Search |
| Acts for | Its operator |
| robots.txt token | bingbot |
| Documentation | Microsoft's documentation |
How Airglow identifies it
- DeclaredIt names itself in the User-Agent:
bingbot.
Every visit in Airglow says which of these applied, so you can decide how much to trust it.
Seeing it on your site
It reads pages without running JavaScript, so Airglow counts it through a server connection (Cloudflare). It's labeled as context, not replayed.
Allowing or blocking Bingbot
Bingbot reads the bingbot group in your robots.txt. To keep it out of the whole site:
User-agent: bingbot Disallow: /
Airglow shows, for every agent that visits, whether your robots.txt lets it in, and helps you write rules by purpose (training, search, acting for a person).
Other agents from Microsoft
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