Microsoft bots
3 bots in the directory · Reviewed July 2026
Microsoft's Bingbot builds the Bing index, which also grounds Copilot's web answers across Windows, Edge, and Microsoft 365, and feeds downstream search engines that license Bing's results.
Control every Microsoft bot at once
robots.txt lets one rule group target multiple user-agents. These snippets cover all 3 Microsoft tokens in this directory. For finer control, set rules per bot on each bot's page.
Allow all Microsoft bots
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: adidxbot
User-agent: MicrosoftPreview
Allow: /Block all Microsoft bots
User-agent: Bingbot
User-agent: adidxbot
User-agent: MicrosoftPreview
Disallow: /Careful: this group includes a search engine crawler. Blocking it removes you from traditional search rankings and the AI answers built on that index, not just AI features.