As a reminder, since April, Bing has been slowly testing a new BingBot consumer agent, slowly rolling it out to extra percentages of crawls over the yr. It ought to have rolled out to 100% of all crawls final month. However now Fabrice Canel mentioned this week that it’s close to 100%, and an announcement is coming someday right this moment from Microsoft.
Fabrice Canel from Microsoft Bing wrote on Twitter, “We’re close to 100% and are proactively monitoring and rolling again any web site having points. Keep tuned for extra communication Friday.”
Initially, Bing mentioned it will be rolled out by Fall 2022, then January 2023. Possibly right this moment is the day?
Right here has been the rollout to this point:
- April 2022: Lower than 5% of crawls
- July 2022: 5% of all crawls
- September 2022: 20% of all crawls
- October 2022: 50% of all crawls
- February 2023: New 100% of all crawls
Let’s examine what Fabrice pronounces right this moment.
Discussion board dialogue at Twitter.
Replace: Confirmed, it’s totally dwell in line with Fabrice on LinkedIn.
Sure @rustybrick 💯% right this moment (we fallback to earlier consumer brokers the place applicable). Extra data on Bing Crawler Person Brokers: https://t.co/n0ILIEUz0I https://t.co/49ILtJDuL0
— Fabrice Canel (@facan) February 3, 2023
