Fabrice Canel from Microsoft posted on X this week that BingBot turned 14 years previous. Yea, 14 years of crawling the net. Fabrice wrote, “Blissful 14th Birthday, BingBot! You’ve been crawling 🕷️ the net and bringing us the most effective 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 publish from Fabrice:
🎉 Blissful 14th Birthday, @BingBot! 🎂 You’ve been crawling 🕷️ the net 🕸️ and bringing us the most effective 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 fearful with Microsoft’s push for IndexNow over time.
I doubt they’d ever retire BingBot however after 14 years, BingBot could need to attempt to decelerate a bit? Kidding.
Discussion board dialogue at X.
Notice: This was pre-written and scheduled to be posted at this time, I’m currently offline for Rosh Hashanah.
