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# Microsoft crawlers and agents | Agent Ready Crawlers

> Microsoft in the Crawler Index: 3 crawlers and agents with tokens, purposes, verification method and block rates, read 2026-11-04.

Source: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/operator/microsoft
Site: Agent Ready Crawlers
Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

# Microsoft: 3 rows

In short

Microsoft has 3 rows in the Index: Bingbot, MicrosoftPreview and Browse with Copilot. They cover 3 purposes: search index, other, task agent. 2 of them have a robots.txt token and 1 publish nothing a site can verify. The most refused is MicrosoftPreview, disallowed at the root by 4.0 percent of top-10,000 sites.

Microsoft: 3 rows.

| Operator | Token | Purpose | Respects robots.txt | Verification | Block rate 2026-11-04 | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Microsoft | bingbot | Search index | Yes | Reverse DNS | 3.1% | Profile |
| Microsoft | MicrosoftPreview | Other | Yes | Reverse DNS | 4.0% | Profile |
| Microsoft | Browse with Copilot (formerly Copilot Actions) no token | Task agent | No docs | None published | no token | Profile |

Vendor profile: [Microsoft](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/vendors/microsoft/), with its products, standards, our probes and what it does not do.

## Verification Ledger entry

Summary

bingbot.json (creationTime 2024-01-03) and a verification tool; nothing for Browse with Copilot.

IP lists

-   [www.bing.com/toolbox/bingbot.json](https://www.bing.com/toolbox/bingbot.json)

Reverse DNS

Verify Bingbot tool and documented methods

Key directory

not published

Cloudflare

not checked

Visa and Mastercard

Visa TAP: no public operator-level registration found (checked 2026-11-04). Mastercard Agent Pay: no public operator-level registration found (checked 2026-11-04).

## Block rates for Microsoft tokens

| Token | Refused, top 10,000 | Named | Via * | All crawled |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| MicrosoftPreview | 4.0% | 0.0% | 3.9% | 2.9% |
| Bingbot | 3.1% | 0.4% | 2.7% | 2.2% |

Based on 5,938 top-10,000 sites with a parsed robots.txt; crawl of 2026-11-04.

## In the news

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## Sources

-   [Which Crawlers Does Bing Use?](https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/which-crawlers-does-bing-use-8c184ec0) read 2026-11-04
-   [bing.com: how to verify bingbot 3905dc26](https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/how-to-verify-bingbot-3905dc26) read 2026-11-04
-   [verisoul.ai: copilot edge](https://www.verisoul.ai/agents/copilot-edge) read 2026-11-04

Last reviewed 2026-11-04