{"id":24303,"date":"2024-08-21T09:53:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T23:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalnomadshq.com.au\/?post_type=glossary&amp;p=24303"},"modified":"2024-08-21T09:53:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T23:53:58","slug":"bingbot","status":"publish","type":"glossary","link":"https:\/\/digitalnomadshq.com.au\/glossary\/bingbot\/","title":{"rendered":"Bingbot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is Bingbot? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bingbot is a web crawler distributed by Microsoft that gathers data and builds a searchable index on the internet. It&#8217;s the bot behind Bing search, performing the same crucial function as Googlebot does for the Google search platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bingbot was launched in October 2010, and is the third most active crawler in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">User Agent Strings<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bingbot can be identified by the following User Agent strings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><code>Mozilla\/5.0 (compatible; bingbot\/2.0; +http:\/\/www.bing.com\/bingbot.htm)<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><code>Mozilla\/5.0 AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; bingbot\/2.0; +http:\/\/www.bing.com\/bingbot.htm) Chrome\/W.X.Y.Z Safari\/537.36<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><code>Mozilla\/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build\/MMB29P) AppleWebKit\/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome\/W.X.Y.Z Mobile Safari\/537.36 (compatible; bingbot\/2.0; +http:\/\/www.bing.com\/bingbot.htm)<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Adherence to Standards<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like other major search bots, Bingbot respects the rules outlined in the robots.txt file and honours the &#8220;nofollow&#8221; directives on links and pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Additional Bing Crawlers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition to Bingbot, Bing also operates other specialised crawlers, such as AdIdxBot (for Bing Ads) and BingPreview (to generate page snapshots).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":""},"class_list":["post-24303","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnomadshq.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary\/24303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnomadshq.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossary"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnomadshq.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/glossary"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalnomadshq.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}