Fabrice Canel from Microsoft posted on X this week that BingBot turned 14 years old. Yea, 14 years of crawling the web. Fabrice wrote, "Happy 14th Birthday, BingBot! You’ve been crawling 🕷️ the web and bringing us the best search results for over a decade. Next year promises even more innovation and excellence! Time to graduate and maximize crawl efficiency."
Here is that post from Fabrice:
🎉 Happy 14th Birthday, @BingBot! 🎂 You’ve been crawling 🕷️ the web 🕸️ and bringing us the best search results for over a decade. Next year promises even more innovation and excellence! Time to graduate
— Fabrice Canel (@facan) October 1, 2024
🎓and maximize crawl efficiency 🚀
Fabrice is promising more efficiency from BingBot's crawling efforts in the future. I mean, Google's Gary Illyes said the same thing about Googlebot not long ago.
But I do wonder if BingBot needs to be worried with Microsoft's push for IndexNow over the years.
I doubt they would ever retire BingBot but after 14 years, BingBot may want to try to slow down a bit? Kidding.
Forum discussion at X.
Note: This was pre-written and scheduled to be posted today, I am currently offline for Rosh Hashanah.
