Bingbot
Bingbot is assigned to the Search category by BotScope. Detection is based on the user-agent string. Current pattern:
(bingbot|BingPreview|msnbot)
Search engine crawlers index publicly available content for their results. They typically fetch /robots.txt first and respect crawl-delay and Disallow rules. High crawl frequency usually correlates with good visibility in those search results.
In the BotScope dashboard you see for Bingbot: top paths, status distribution, byte volume and whether the user-agent signature stays stable over time or rotates.
robots.txt directive for Bingbot
If you don't want Bingbot to crawl your site, add the following block to your /robots.txt. This works only for bots that honour robots.txt — malicious crawlers ignore it.
User-agent: bingbot Disallow: /
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