Bing Previewer
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What is Bing Previewer?
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Microsoft's Link Previewer for web search and AI tools like Copilot.
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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534+ (KHTML, like Gecko) BingPreview/1.0b in your logs?
If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/534+ (KHTML, like Gecko) BingPreview/1.0b in your website logs, it indicates that Bing Previewer has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.
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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0; BingPreview/1.0b) like Gecko in your logs?
If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0; BingPreview/1.0b) like Gecko in your website logs, it indicates that Bing Previewer has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.
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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; Trident/6.0; WOW64; Trident/6.0; BingPreview/1.0b) in your logs?
If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.2; Trident/6.0; WOW64; Trident/6.0; BingPreview/1.0b) in your website logs, it indicates that Bing Previewer has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.
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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0; WOW64; Trident/5.0; BingPreview/1.0b) in your logs?
If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0; WOW64; Trident/5.0; BingPreview/1.0b) in your website logs, it indicates that Bing Previewer has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.
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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11A465 Safari/9537.53 BingPreview/1.0b in your logs?
If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11A465 Safari/9537.53 BingPreview/1.0b in your website logs, it indicates that Bing Previewer has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.
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Expected Behavior
This bot visits websites for various purposes including content analysis, data collection, or automated tasks. Its behavior may vary depending on its specific function and configuration.
Should I Block Bing Previewer?
This bot is marked as compliant, meaning it generally respects robots.txt directives and follows good practices. You may choose to allow it if you want your content to be accessible to its services.
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Get Automated Bot ManagementHow Do I Block Bing Previewer?
You can block this bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt file. Use Spyglasses analytics to check whether it's actually following your rules.
User Agent Tokens
BingPreview\/Should match instances of this botrobots.txt
# robots.txt # This should block Bing Previewer User-agent: BingPreview\/ Disallow: /
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