Fabrice Canel from Microsoft posted on X this week that BingBot turned 14 years outdated. Yea, 14 years of crawling the online. Fabrice wrote, “Comfortable 14th Birthday, BingBot! You’ve been crawling 🕷️ the online and bringing us one of the best search outcomes for over a decade. Subsequent 12 months guarantees much more innovation and excellence! Time to graduate and maximize crawl effectivity.”
Right here is that put up from Fabrice:
🎉 Comfortable 14th Birthday, @BingBot! 🎂 You’ve been crawling 🕷️ the online 🕸️ and bringing us one of the best search outcomes for over a decade. Subsequent 12 months guarantees much more innovation and excellence! Time to graduate
🎓and maximize crawl effectivity 🚀— Fabrice Canel (@facan) October 1, 2024
Fabrice is promising extra effectivity from BingBot’s crawling efforts sooner or later. I imply, Google’s Gary Illyes mentioned the same thing about Googlebot not way back.
However I do surprise if BingBot must be anxious with Microsoft’s push for IndexNow through the years.
I doubt they might ever retire BingBot however after 14 years, BingBot could wish to attempt to decelerate a bit? Kidding.
Discussion board dialogue at X.
Observe: This was pre-written and scheduled to be posted as we speak, I’m currently offline for Rosh Hashanah.
