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Bingbot is a web crawling Internet bot deployed by Microsoft in October 2010 to supply Bing. It collects documents from the web to build a searchable index for Microsoft Bing. It is functionally the same as Google's Googlebot.
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A typical user agent string for Bingbot is "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)". This appears in the web server logs to tell the webmaster who is requesting a file. Each webmaster is able to use the included agent identifier, "bingbot", to disallow or allow access to their site (by default access is allowed). If they don't want to grant access, they can use the Robots Exclusion Standard to block it (relying on the assumed good behavior of bingbot) or use other server-specific means (relying on the webserver to do the blocking).
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External links[]
- Bingbot at Wikipedia