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title: "Bingbot"
description: "Bingbot is Microsoft's web crawler that discovers and indexes web pages for Bing Search, the second-largest search engine by market share."
category: "AI & Bot Detection"
date: "2026-03-05"
url: "https://getbeast.io/glossary/bingbot/"
type: "glossary"
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# Bingbot

**Category:** AI & Bot Detection | **Updated:** 2026-03-05

Bingbot is Microsoft's web crawler that discovers and indexes web pages for Bing Search, the second-largest search engine by market share.

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## What Is Bingbot?
Bingbot is the web crawler operated by Microsoft to index content for Bing Search. It identifies itself with the user-agent string `bingbot/2.0`. Bingbot respects robots.txt and supports the Crawl-delay directive (unlike Googlebot). It also powers search results for Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and other Bing-powered search engines.

## Why Bingbot Matters
Bing commands significant search market share, especially in enterprise environments and regions where it is the default browser search engine. Bingbot also supports `Crawl-delay` in robots.txt, giving you direct control over its crawl rate. Monitoring Bingbot alongside Googlebot provides a more complete view of search engine crawl behavior.

## How to Monitor Bingbot
Filter your access logs for the `bingbot` user-agent string. Verify authenticity via reverse DNS (should resolve to `*.search.msn.com`). Use Bing Webmaster Tools for crawl statistics. Track Bingbot alongside Googlebot with [LogBeast](/logbeast/).

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## Related Terms

- [Googlebot](/glossary/googlebot/)
- [Web Crawler](/glossary/web-crawler/)
- [Bot Detection](/glossary/bot-detection/)
- [User-Agent String](/glossary/user-agent-string/)
- [Crawl Rate](/glossary/crawl-rate/)


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