Fabrice Canel up to date us the opposite day that now half of all crawling Microsoft Bing does is over the new BingBot consumer agent. A couple of month in the past, it was 20%, then two months previous to that it was 5%. So it appears issues are transferring sooner to improve absolutely to the brand new BingBot.
Fabrice introduced this on Twitter a day or so in the past.
Right here is the timeline to date:
To take you again, in April, Bing introduced a brand new consumer agent for its crawler, BingBot. That new BingBot will likely be absolutely dwell someday within the fall of 2022, however for now, we’re simply in the summertime and the autumn is a few months away.
Slowly, Microsoft has been bringing this new BingBot consumer agent on board and now it’s crawling about 50% of all URLs. Within the subsequent few months or so, it ought to be nearer to 100% of all URLs downloaded or crawled.
Discussion board dialogue at Twitter.
