Bingbot
Indexes for Bing — which also feeds several AI assistants' search layers.
| robots.txt token | Bingbot |
| Respects robots.txt | Yes |
| Verification | Reverse DNS + published IP ranges |
| Our recommendation | Allow — Real search traffic, plus downstream assistant citations. |
Block Bingbot with robots.txt
User-agent: Bingbot
Disallow: /robots.txt is a request, not a wall — requests claiming to be Bingbot from unverified networks should be treated as bad bots. How to verify crawlers by network →
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