After a couple years of testing, Microsoft has now stopped using the old BingBot user agent. Microsoft’s Fabrice Canel confirmed this morning that the new Bingbot user-agent is now 100% live today.

Bing announced today that it “will start the transition to a new bingbot user-agent” as it continues to roll out the evergreen BingBot. Evergreen BingBot, the version of BingBot that is able to crawl ...

Bing announced that it is changing the user agent string that identifies itself as Bingbot. Now there will be two user agents, one for desktop and another for the mobile crawler. The new user agent ...

Fabrice Canel from Microsoft said on Twitter last night that 5% of all URLs downloaded are over the new BingBot user agent. To take you back, in April, Bing announced a new user agent for its crawler, ...

Not to be outdone by Google, Microsoft's Fabrice Canel announced that it has published BingBot's IP addresses in this JSON file. This is in addition to the methods to verify Microsoft Bing is crawling ...

SEJ STAFF Matt G. Southern Senior News Writer at Search Engine Journal Bingbot, as one might assume, is similar to Googlebot. Its job is to discover new and updated content and add it to Bing’s index.