Microsoft · Search engines · json
User-agent: bingbot Disallow: /
| robots.txt token | bingbot |
| User-agent contains | bingbot |
| Operator | Microsoft |
| Category | Search engines |
| robots.txt | obeys robots.txt (documented) |
| Verify by | published IP ranges |
| Published ranges | 28 IPv4 + 0 IPv6 · json · source |
Bing's only crawler, and therefore also the crawler behind Microsoft Copilot's grounding. Microsoft's documented way to keep search indexing while refusing generative reuse is the nocache / noarchive robots meta directive, not a separate user-agent.
Very high and very wide: Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo and several assistants that resell Bing's index all lose you at once. Use nocache/noarchive rather than blocking.
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
User-agent: bingbot Allow: /
Operator documentation: https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/which-crawlers-does-bing-use-8c184ec0
Machine copies: json ·
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Policies that name this crawler:
allow-all · allow-ai-search-only · maximum-ai-visibility