Bingbot user-agent change coming in the Fall of 2022
Bing will stop using the historical user-agent and transition fully to the new user-agents. In 2019, Microsoft Bing announced new Bingbot user-agent names that fit better with its evergreen Bingbot crawling and rendering service. Microsoft’s Fabrice Canel has now said that by the Fall of 2022 the old user-agent will stopped being used and the search company will transition to the new user-agents fully. Old user-agent. Microsoft said it will stop using its historical user-agent by Fall 2022. That user-agent looks like this: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm) New user-agent. Bing will use a user-agent that identifies the specific…
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