What is Bingbot?
Bingbot is a search/index operated by Microsoft. Use this crawler profile to identify user-agent tokens, operator signals, platform hints, and recommended handling.
Bingbot
Microsoft · Search/index
- Version
- 2.0
- First seen
- May 20, 2026
- Last seen
- May 25, 2026
- Confidence
- Known user-agent token
What is Bingbot?
Bingbot is a search/index operated by Microsoft. Bingbot is likely used by Microsoft to discover, crawl, and index public web pages.
Bingbot matched a known crawler token in the user-agent string, but this page alone does not prove IP ownership.
How to identify Bingbot in logs
Search server logs for Bingbot, bingbot. Matching those tokens is useful for discovery, but IP verification is still recommended before trusting the identity.
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) Chrome/116.0.1938.76 Safari/537.36
Use this as a web-crawler lookup reference for identifying how this user-agent presents itself in server logs.
User-agent signals
- Product tokens
- Mozilla/5.0, AppleWebKit/537.36, Gecko, bingbot/2.0, Chrome/116.0.1938.76, Safari/537.36
- Documentation
- http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm
- Contact
- None found
- Platform
- Unknown · Unknown
- Browser profile
- Chrome · Blink
- Browser-like UA
- Yes
- HTTP library
- Unknown
- Spoof risk
- Medium
Questions answered by this crawler profile
What is Bingbot?
Bingbot is likely used by Microsoft to discover, crawl, and index public web pages.
Who operates Bingbot?
Bingbot is associated with Microsoft.
How do I identify Bingbot in logs?
Search server logs for Bingbot, bingbot. Matching those tokens is useful for discovery, but IP verification is still recommended before trusting the identity.
Should I allow Bingbot?
Verify IP ownership or behavior before making security decisions because user-agent strings can be spoofed. Allow it if you want this crawler to discover public pages, and use robots.txt or rate limits for policy control.
Does Bingbot respect robots.txt?
Robots.txt compliance cannot be proven from a user-agent string alone. Check the crawler operator documentation and your own logs before assuming behavior.