Crawl & indexing
Bing — Verify Bingbot
Check whether an IP address belongs to Bingbot rather than trusting the crawler name supplied in an HTTP user-agent string.
Provider: Microsoft. Editorial listing by Gateway; not an owner claim.
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- Separating legitimate Bing crawler activity from spoofed user agents
- Owner next step
- Choose an address from logs you control and follow Microsoft's verification method before interpreting it as genuine Bingbot traffic or changing crawl controls.
- Access
- Public tool or Bing Webmaster Tools account; an IP address from your own logs
- Cost
- Free. Public verification guidance and a free webmaster tool. The public tool may require a human verification challenge; an account provides another route. Verified identity does not establish indexing or referrals.
- Interfaces
- Website
- Source evidence
- Official public source · checked 2026-10-20. This is a description review, not an execution or compatibility test.
- Traffic and availability
- Not monitored. Bot visits, citations, uptime and successful delivery have not been measured by this directory.
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